Word: vital
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Defense Attorney Schell is permitted a pulverizing passage of eloquence in which he reminds the court (and the world) that in varying degrees the Soviet Union, the United States, the Vatican and even Winston Churchill (who as late as 1937 praised Hitler's "courage, perseverance and vital force'') must share with the German people the blame for Nazi times and crimes. At another point Schell makes a withering deprecation of the victor's right to judge the vanquished. "Is Hiroshima," he wonders, "the superior morality?" And there are several scenes of punishing mockery in which...
...that led to his development into true man. In any case, weapons are only part of the bag of tricks that raised primitive man above his apelike relatives. Equally important were nonviolent, food-getting tools such as game traps, digging sticks and mills for grinding hard seeds. Fire was vital. So was speech, which enabled men to cooperate closely, form permanent cultures and exchange useful information. Ardrey hardly mentions these things, preferring to emphasize only the weapons of "man the killer...
...vital, therefore, that Tocsin read and consider a wide index of student attitudes at their organizational meeting tonight. Hopefully, the type of support they receive will strengthen the likelihood of a useful and pertinent demonstration in Washington...
Instead she emerges as a vital and extraordinarily real human being. As she tells her own story, her unique perceptivity gives the admittedly limited world of her contacts a special freshness. Josephine has a penchant for questioning the connections ordinarily drawn between different aspects of everyday experience. An invitation bearing her name inspires the following reflection: "It was the hit-or-miss of these words that struck me most. I knew the collocution was supposed to represent me and no one else, but it always seemed odd that so loose an approximation as a name could have a claim...
...said, "they can fire me." Last week, though, the Journal was struggling through the first strike in its history, and Harry Grant was still chairman. But by striking against the very corporation they are supposed to control, the Journal's working stockholders have forced a showdown on a vital issue: on an employee-owned newspaper, who is really boss...