Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller is interested here in "the sin of public terror" (his phraseology is a pretty good indication of where he stands on the matter), which was an even more vital issue when The Crucible was written than it is now. He indulges in no hindsight, and loads his play with no over-obvious parallels to contemporary events--though the audience is not discouraged from drawing parallels itself. But his play demonstrates impressively that when a man reasons from certain premises, it is inevitable for him to conclude that all opposition to the government is treason...
Butterfield, who will give the first Horblit Lecture on the History of Science, tomorrow, spoke about science's present role as a vital force in civilization and said, "Don't imagine it can go on forever." He ventured that today's science will carry on to something new and compared its present role with that of scholasticism in the Middle Ages...
...slammed westward through thick fog past Nantucket lightship on a July night in 1956. Approaching her, eastbound, was the Stockholm, also radar-equipped. Reporter Moscow, who sifted 6,000 pages of testimony, does not solve the mystery of how two ships with radar could collide so disastrously. The last vital blips of evidence were suppressed when the shipowners settled damage claims out of court...
...that the President has remained silent on vital issues," he cracked. "On the contrary, we have heard many a bold platitude. We are given phrases instead of leadership, slogans instead of a program." Then, after a few bold platitudes of his own, Kennedy flew off to political rituals in three more states (an encounter with Oregon's candidate-heckling "Cavemen," a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Boise, Idaho, a prop-stop in Butte, Mont.) on a routine three-day weekend of campaigning away from Washington. Said a top politician, as Kennedy departed: "He'll murder Nixon."* Behind the Front...
...interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...