Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cautious, yet constructive look at the nation's resources). Dean Acheson and Lewis Douglas (the forces of stabilization) are shown as they clashed with Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, a Cornell professor named George Warren, and, eventually, FDR (the forces of inflation). And there are even more squabbles, sometimes petty, sometimes vital: between Cordell Hull and Raymond Moley at the London Economic Conferences; between Jerome Frank, general counsel and an early casualty of AAA, against George Peek (a representative "of the older generation" in the battle for farm equality); and, in the most dominant fight of them all, between the two Franklin...
...Groton-Harvard-Hyde Park aristocrat becoming a hero of the proletariat. The author does a masterful job of detective-work on that mystery and produces a convincing explanation: 'He always cast his vote for life, for action, for forward motion, for the future.... He responded to what was vital, not to what was lifeless; to what was coming, not to what was passing away...
...saddening. Schlesinger has performed a considerable service in recording the old ways of response to crises before the life has completely gone out of them. But the undergraduate of the 1950's cannot help feeling in reading this volume that he has missed one of the most fascinating and vital periods of American politics. Worse, he can see no guarantee that it can be revived...
...that the Arts Center, far from damaging other local theatres, will stimulate all drama trade in the area. But the prestige of state support, which MeBAC would give to the Cambridge Drama Festival, would surely hamper the fund-raising and actor-recruiting programs so vital to organizations like Group 20 in competition with the CDF. And financial records show that competition between two repertory theatres in the Boston area means a loss for both...
...Common Decencies. As realistic men, the jurists had no illusions that these vital safeguards to liberty would sweep the earth overnight. "Our business here," said India's ex-Supreme Court Judge Vivian Bose, "is to see whether we as lawyers, judges and jurists cannot stir the conscience of the world into insisting that there shall be certain common decencies for all men in all lands." To some it might seem improbable that the conscience of the world would ever greatly affect the actions of totalitarian rulers. But the men who met in New Delhi last week had behind them...