Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other legions who would read only the headlines. Moreover, they said "yes" the hard way; they absolved Physicist Oppenheimer of any charges of present-day disloyalty, or of any "attachment to the Soviet Union"; they commended his "high degree of discretion, reflecting an unusual ability to keep to himself vital secrets." Their verdict lay in a new and carefully reasoned proposition: beyond loyalty and discretion lie certain harsh requirements of security that Robert Oppenheimer, as an individual, does not measure...
...Vital Doubt. The gravest, newest and most serious finding-regardless of the fact that it seemed deliberately written in vague terms-was that Oppenheimer's conduct on the H-bomb was "sufficiently disturbing to raise a doubt." Items...
...board takes cognizance of the serious alarm . . . that denial of clearance to Dr. Oppenheimer would do serious harm in the scientific community. This is a matter of vital concern to the Government and the people...
...style is what you speak. Imagine you are speaking to me-not writing at all." Later, when Lindbergh was battling through the thunderheads of prose composition, he was perplexed by the problem of how to present the meticulous log of his 1927 flight without boring the reader with such vital but prosaic details as fuel consumption and compass headings. Again, Anne had a helpful idea: "Don't let the log readings tie you down. Put them in-let them punctuate the story. They give . . . a subconscious sense of time-a beating undertone . . . Leave them there-stark on a page...
...London high jinks and international low life. Graham Several, a financial wizard, is the crystal. Roger Meredith, a civil servant, is assigned by the Foreign Office to find the flaw. If there is no flaw in Several's loyalty, he is to be sent abroad on a vital secret mission. Meredith's search leads through the brilliant, overlapping aristocratic, political, literary and journalistic worlds of London to the discovery of a magnetic and completely seductive personality. It also leads to an ingenious surprise ending and the disclosure that the flaw of a many-faceted crystal sometimes lies...