Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erich Heckel is old-80 this week. The vital and violent movement that he and two colleagues, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the late Ernst Kirchner, started nearly six decades ago is now a part of both history and legend. There is proof, in a current show of Heckel's work in the stately main hall of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, that passion and emotion once flamed as hotly in this old man as ever in any iconoclastic rebel. But he now lives quietly and serenely in an orchard-ringed farmhouse on Lake Constance, sometimes reminiscing about a youth that...
Raising a vital question about the direction of the Republican Party, Rockefeller attacked an election strategy advocated by some of its members: "Completely incredible as it is to me, it is now being seriously proposed to the Republican Party, as a strategy for victory in 1964, that it write off the Negro and other minority groups, that it deliberately write off the great industrial states of the North, that it write off the big cities, and that it direct its appeal primarily to the electoral votes of the South, plus the West and a scattering of other states. The transparent...
...raised by the fellowship of his peers." As for the burgeoning revival of fraternities since World War II (40% of West German students now belong), der Alte maintained that "after the terrible collapse at the end of the war, the rise of such a tradition is of very vital and great significance for all the German people...
Another possibility is an internal telemetering system to report vital information such as heart beat, blood pressure, brain waves, etc. A man with such a device healed inside his skin would need to trail no wires. His physical condition could be checked from a distance without his knowing that a doctor was listening to his insides...
...higher good even though he had no proof of it. Though he remained an agnostic because he felt that no religion had a corner on the truth, he became passionately interested in the religious experience itself-on the ground that the experience of religious conversion was a vital one for the human being. James ransacked history and searched among his contemporaries for examples; ultimately he collected these individual histories in a massive volume, first published in 1902, that has become a classic of American literature: The Varieties of Religious Experience...