Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that a great deal of ivory-tower nonsense is being written about suburban churches, which are in many cases the most vital of our day. The minister cannot divorce himself from the life of his people and minister effectively. I fear that some prescriptions for the health of clergy would only enable them to fulfill the classic description of the same, as being invisible six days of the week and incomprehensible on the seventh...
During their wartime race to build the world's first Abomb, U.S. scientists urgently needed one vital component: a chemical element that was fissionable (explosive) but not so radioactive that it would disintegrate before the big bang was touched off. The bomb builders found what they wanted at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, where Drs. Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan had put together some synthetic plutonium, element 94. Until then, plutonium was no more than a lab curiosity, but it proved to be properly fissionable, and it was so slightly radioactive that only...
...Country. This study of Sigmund Freud and his famous patient Elizabeth von Ritter, although somewhat broken in impact, provides an often vibrant blend of theater and truth. The play offers a vital portrait of Freud, ably acted by Steven Hill, and a crucial delineation of Elizabeth, intelligently played by Kim Stanley...
...Administration's Cuban policy suffers because the self-evident claim that the Castro government is today aligned with the Soviet bloc bypasses the vital and constructive question...
...Country. This study of Sigmund Freud and his famous patient Elizabeth von Ritter, although somewhat broken in impact, provides an often vibrant blend-as against the usual clash-of theater and truth. The play offers a vital portrait of Freud, ably acted by Steven Hill, and a crucial delineation of Elizabeth, intelligently played by Kim Stanley...