Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME again has uncovered heretofore unrecognized evidence on a vital issue: in the biographical sketch of Gussie Busch of our beer nobility, noting decreased sales of beer; attention was called to diversions, including the do-it-yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of Americans. Such diversions, it was suggested, could account for less dependence on alcoholic drinks for relief from boredom. This is evidence that Americans are not being led into debauchery by prosperity and the five-day week...
...clear up much of the mystery that surrounded Gulbenkian's life. The extent of his fortune is still a jealously guarded secret, and the incredible diversity of his financial interests was such that probably nobody but Gulbenkian himself had more than an approximate notion of them. Even the vital statistics of his life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra...
...shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth who since adolescence has been moving against society, a dagger in his hand, and who to stab it has sought out its most...
...Malraux rushed off to the U.S., scoured the country from New York to Hollywood raising money and exhorting intellectuals to join Spain's anti-Fascist fight. If they lived, he said, their writing would be the better for the experience; if they died, their deaths would be more vital documents than anything they could write from an ivory tower...
Often in the past, Washington has appeared out of step with public opinion on vital questions. But today there is striking unanimity of opinion between Americans and their Government on the great issues of the time...