Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital culture in the arts must be based on communication to the human community, not on incommunicable personal statements, completely provincial to the moment and person of the expressor...
...Kennedy's head. Parkland doctors, who worked over Kennedy as he lay on his back, apparently missed the first wound. And it might not have been fatal. The bullet had penetrated but two or three inches, perhaps after ricocheting from part of the limousine, and it struck no vital organs...
...months since the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the news out of South Viet Nam has been mostly bad. The Communist Viet Cong have scored alarming gains in vital Long An province south of Saigon, which feeds the capital. For all the fanfare with which they were welcomed by Diem's critics, the generals who succeeded the slain President have demonstrated an unsettling lack of political leadership; recently, the civilian chiefs of nine northern provinces relayed a plea to junta chairman Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh: "Please send us orders...
...helicopter, the countryside is a dismal sight of actual or threatened Viet Cong control. In the delta to the south, and in two or three provinces around Saigon, there is no doubt of who controls the boondocks. Of mounting concern is the Communists' increased hold on vital Long An province on Saigon's southern flank, where conditions have become precarious. A U.S. adviser says wryly that there is no need in Long An for the government's plan to abolish some of the overextended outposts. "The Viet Cong," he says, "are doing that...
...assassination of such a young and vital man as John F. Kennedy tragically demonstrates the great vulnerability of the President of the United States. For the fourth time this century, a President has died or been killed while in office. Furthermore, both former Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have been threatened by possible fatal dangers: Truman by an assassination attempt, Eisenhower by a heart attack...