Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening's sensation was a set of Fantasias by British Henry Purcell whose death in 1695 deprived England of its greatest musical genius. The Purcell pieces played last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
Last week two women scientists explained how plants build the cellulose membranes that form cell walls, a process of vital interest to textile technologists. Unable to see how plants manufacture their cellulose, botanists have supposed for a long time that the membranes were laid down in particles too small to be seen under the microscope. Researchers could estimate the molecular weight of cellulose at something around 162. but they could not find the exact weight, or the melting point of the pure substance, or the molecular architecture...
...involved in church politics, taking his father's side in intrachurch squabbles, wrote a thundering attack on Huxley, whom he accused of ignorance, insincerity and arrogance. Moving to the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, Henry van Dyke became a leader in a church reform movement, a vital issue which at that time attracted much newspaper attention. Hostile to ministers who took part in politics, he nevertheless advocated sound money, supported the Spanish-American War, urged the application of Christian ideals in political and economic life as an alternative to Socialism, sternly opposed income taxes...
...break in routine would not come at a vital time. November hour exams are over and midyears more than a month away What if the academic world does stop rotating for four days The fine tradition of American families should have more influence at least once a year...
...stimulating one, and handled with proper emphasis and directorial skill. One might wish to see the pacifist remain true to his ideals and declare once for all that, when it comes to war, the individual must assert himself even if it was contrary to the group. This is a vital problem, one of dramatic and almost necessarily tragic intensity, which "So Red the Rose" has introduced, but not fully developed...