Word: vital
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Chilled Feet. Instead of deploring the fragmentation of American Protestants into 250-odd different denominations, Bishop Kennedy notes that U.S. church membership is at an alltime high. In addition to which, "I do not know a country in the world where the Christian churches are more vital and relevant than they are in the United States ... It just might be that our American pluralism is not our weakness but our strength...
...best chapter in this group is the one on Dickens. Comparing Fagin to all the other Jew-villains in English literature, Rosenberg notes the vital difference: "Marlowe's and Shakespeare's Jews assert themselves actively against their persecution and regard it as a source of terror. The point is that none of them can be sensibly appreciated without an awareness of the restrictions which prevent them from participating fully in the social world. There comes a point at which Barabas, the professional poisoner, ceases to be a satanic figure and can lecture Ferneze on the conditions of injustice without immediately...
...seriousness. The stage was always full of actors in motion--slick, sometimes funny, and always pointless motion. It was a desperate attempt to breathe some life into the production, but all the energy seemed somehow irrelevant. Unfortunately, even the slapstick often lost effect because it lacked the one vital element of slapstick--timing. The actors achieved varying degrees of mediocrity, and the set, by Donald Soule, seemed sturdy...
...Attorney General Robert Kennedy, for example, plans a massive attack on organized crime-but will limit his requests for congressional assistance to matters of money and manpower. Until he can tighten his grip on the Congress, with all its factions, the President will urge only a limited number of "vital" bills, such as federal aid for school construction and more money for federally assisted housing. Explained one Cabinet member: "The controversial stuff can come later. That's what Franklin Roosevelt...
Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...