Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the synthesis of vital form and formal beauty which marked the birth of Humanism, the Greek sculptors of the Fifth Century B.C. opened up a new dimension of human consciousness, Sir Herbert Read told his audience in the fourth Charles Eliot Norton Lecture of the year last night...
...Britons believe that this is possible: even a fraction of that amount would involve a drastic change in the world's trading relationship. Yet, undeniably, the vast Soviet offer had raised all Europe's hopes. It made certain that East-West trade will be one of the vital issues...
...Vital Ingredient. West Germany throbs with its fabulous recovery while the East Germans under Soviet rule are on the brink of starvation. In Düsseldorf, Munich and other cities, where only a few years ago the ragged populace scrabbled through the rubble in desperate search for a single potato, rebuilt hotels teem with prosperous travelers, and the air is filled with shop talk and cigar smoke. In the Ruhr, bomb-shattered steel mills glow once more through the long winter nights. Germans who were once glad to sell their prized possessions for a few packs of cigarettes now have...
...lend itself any too readily to televised dramatics. The official government statement made in 1952 makes clear the effort to avoid hysteria; "In establishing rules for security in the Civil Service with respect to Communists, Fascists and their fellow-travellers, the British Government has been concerned to protect vital state secrets while at the same time interfering as little as possible with the civil liberties of the individual. In order to do this, a distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does not in itself bar a person from employment...
While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...