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Judged in this way, the AEC seems to be doing well. Its work is divided into two main parts: 1) research and development, 2) production. Both of these departments show every appearance of high morale and creative vigor...
...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...
...music, however, was magnificent-controlled and precise, full of charm and nuance, and as smoothly and sweetly toned as the famed strings of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Playing the Beethoven "Razou-mouvsky" Op. 59, No. 3 the same easy way, the young musicians displayed a virility and vigor that brought roars of "bravo" with the last note. Their glassy sonorities and petal-soft pianissimos in the final Debussy proved that they command just about every quality of quartet sound. The audience, aware that they were hearing what is probably the finest quartet of the day, refused to go home. The Italians...
Taft seems to have 400 votes pretty solidly nailed down. Eisenhower, if he declares his candidacy soon, might count on 300 as a starting bloc. What inroads he might make on the remaining 300 loose votes depends largely on the vigor of his campaign managers who, so far, have let Taft steal a long, long march...
...other freedoms really are. Freedom is a precious right, but it is not an unlimited right and it ends where license commences. It is the duty of the authorities to guard jealously that freedom of thought and speech given us by the Constitution but also to repress with equal vigor the license, which seeks to destroy that Constitution, upon which all freedoms depend, and to replace it with slavery and chaos...