Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found that they had little operable authority over the twelve council presidents or the six-man secretariat of the council. And in much the way that a committee chairman can bottle up a bill in the U.S. Congress, the Curia men in charge of the commissions stalled on the vital job of incorporating changes requested by the bishops into revised schemata. The important theological commission met so infrequently that Pope Paul formally requested it to get down to work...
...John ever was-and he apparently decided that he cannot afford to alienate its powerful conservatives by acting strongly against them. As an administrator, Pope Paul proved to have a common failing of the intellectual: a desire to know more facts and viewpoints than are necessary to make a vital decision. Moreover, some Vatican observers believe that he regards the council as a check on his freedom to govern the church. "I fear that the bishops are rushing toward the brink of schism," he told a visitor recently...
...Harvard should pay its teaching fellows more money, as a way of attracting stronger people into this particular program and stronger people into college teaching generally. As one member commented: "With its low pay scale is Harvard attracting virile, vital men into teaching, or anemic, intellectual celibates? To be a good teacher one should be a balanced and healthy man as well as a bright student." It was noted that New Trier High School pays its starting teachers at a higher base rate ($5,600) than Harvard College. Thus Harvard is not competitive now with the best public high schools...
...questions on February 25. The Brotherhoods' recent history of pat refusals to negotiate within the bounds of the reports of impartial commissions suggests that once again the thorny question will be thrown into Congress. Not only would this weaken public confidence in collective bargaining, but in a year of vital political importance, the railroad dispute would jam up legislation left over from this session...
...Menninger Clinic, the world's most famed hospital for the mentally ill and its most fertile field for psychiatrists in training. He has interpreted psychiatry to the laity in such noted books as The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, and Love Against Hate. Now, in The Vital Balance (Viking; $10), Dr. Menninger not only spells out what he thinks is wrong with psychiatry; he also supplies some prescriptions for immediate relief. Much of the trouble, he says, is a hangover of hopelessness from the bad old days. Another, and even more important problem, says Dr. Menninger, is psychiatry...