Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the extra strength entitled his party to at least one more ministry. The one in mind: the Foreign Ministry, where Socialist Bruno Kreisky was the prime target of the People's Party reformers. The conservatives argued that a Socialist could not possibly put his heart into the vital negotiations for Austrian associate membership in the Common Market, which, after all, was a triumph of capitalism...
...Academy of Design, whose tastes ran to the sentimental, the anecdotal, and the academic. Though Stieglitz had exhibited such men as Matisse, Picasso and John Marin in his Manhattan gallery, the critics' verdict on his shows ranged from a patronizing "bewildering" to a savage "subterhuman hideousness." The most vital American painters were a group subsequently known as the Ashcan School, but their harshly realistic paintings were receiving almost no recognition. "Stop studying water pitchers and bananas and paint everyday life," cried Cincinnati-born Robert Henri. But the Academy and the public preferred the bananas...
...fact that the postulates on which they based their own and Canada's identities have slipped away. Their role is to redefine their position and that of their country in the coming years. Conway said that the coming election will not solve the problem, and stated that the needed vital thinking will only come in the next decade when the new generation injects fresh blood into the presently indecisive political parties...
...keep time as faithfully as an expensive jewel-bearing watch. Lehmkuhl retorts that a Timex should run five years without cleaning, but U.S. Time has tacitly admitted that there is some ground for criticism by recently dropping two of its Armalloy metal bearings in favor of synthetic jewels in vital spots; the company had discovered that the bearings did not properly retain lubricating oil. The switch has not affected the cost of making Timex watches: the jewels cost Timex only 4? each...
...Wednesday, with Rio's streets almost deserted except for strings of colored lights, colored plastic pillars and a few exhausted stragglers, the highly vital statistics told only part of the story. Ambulance calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...