Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questioned about her art, Miss Bruning became serious, and spoke with much enthusiasm, "The big hits on the New York stage such as 'Green Bay Tree,' 'Men in White,' and others show that the legitimate drama in this country is passing through a very vital period. If these successes continue, there will be a great revival of plays, and the general public will realize that true art can be better presented on the stage than on the screen...
...goal is the healthy mind in the healthy body. This is not only a creed but a way of life. Sun, light and air are vital conditions to human wellbeing. We believe these elements are insufficiently used in present-day life, to the detriment of physical and moral health."-Pronunciamento of the International Nudist Conference...
Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach...
Though "rah-rah-ism" is contemptuously viewed as a thing of the past at Yale, we must take caution lest we completely strip from our college life something of the past that is still vital and of value. We point with pride to the passage of mushy sentimentalism, yet there are very few of us who do not feel the same loyalty to Yale that our fathers and predecessors felt...
...abolished for the first group of students and modified for the others, letting the vanity of some of the professors go untickled, but doing the students a great service. For a rigid insistence on a program of courses merely bogs down the man of talent and stays him from vital accomplishment. Certain topics can best be treated in large lectures; attendance at those should be no more compulsory than graduate attendance at classes in Oxford or Cambridge, and there need not be nearly so many of them as at present. Most material now conveyed from the rostrum would be better...