Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lincoln Center productions have bored me. Really the only vital thing about American theatre is that it is so bad it has to get better...
Army's other important sweep came in the individual medley, where Dick Kline and Charles Gantner edged Bob Corris for a vital eight points. Kline's winning time was a very fast 2:04.6. Gantner later touched out Jim Seubold for third in the 100. Army also swept the backstroke, with Jack Gatesy winning...
...formal change in the Rome Treaty to prevent majority voting on the council, thus retaining control of veto power. France will probably have to settle instead for an informal gentleman's agreement that no country will be overruled on a matter of vital national interest...
Most dangerous sparks of all, however, were flying in Zambia, Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, where moderate President Kenneth Kaunda was under mounting pressure to do something about the Smith takeover. Powerless to act on his own, and dependent on Rhodesian railroads and power to keep his vital copper exports flowing, Kaunda found himself being pressed to accept troops from those two eager conspirators, Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as military aid from Moscow and Peking. Kaunda wants no part of it. He believes there is real danger that Rhodesia could...
When a comedy is still vital after three decades, it cannot be living on gags alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...