Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty spokesman, the dean has a vital role in the line of communications between Faculty and administration. Because the dean controls the Faculty's budget, he plays an analogous part in the financial organization of the University. Control of the budget-deciding which projects are to be financed--is an extremely effective device for shaping educational policy...
...Penn students attended an open discussion of the suspension this afternoon. The discussion led to no real conclusions, but did produce the following statement by Morton Keller, assistant professor of History: "I have found the Daily Pennsylvanian to be poorly written with grammatical errors. But it was a consistently vital and vigorous paper even in its mistakes...
...blunders with which Britain and her allies approached this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...
...Ullman performs a vital service to historical scholarship by providing a companion volume to George Kennan's two-volume work on Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920. Valuable to the scholar, Intervention and the War is also stimulating reading for anyone even slightly interested in this vital segment of modern history...
...millionaire's mausoleal residence. "They're all dead here," the wife sighs as they enter the house. Antonioni's point is unmistakable: his hero, like Orpheus, has entered Hades, the contemporary hell of unmeaning materialism- will he find there the love, the soul, the vital core of meaning he has lost? He finds the daughter of the millionaire (Monica Vitti), a dark-haired charmer whom he fiercely pursues, only to find her as empty and desperate as he is. "At heart," she tells him with a vacant smile, "I'm just a girl who likes golf...