Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people have to develop their own institutional strength if they're going to get anywhere. That's the way our society works, and that's the way it will continue to work." And third, it helps, especially through its Journal, to put new concepts and formulations into language, a vital function and one that "must be done from a black point of view...
...Revolutionary "wars of national liberation" cannot succeed without a solid nationalistic basis. Since nationalist revolutionaries do not take orders from China or from any other outside power, successful "wars of national liberation" do not involve a direct expansion of Chinese power, and hence do not threaten America's vital interests...
...nationalist mantle, their prospects for success are minimal. In fact, with the exception of China and Vietnam, communists have been unable to seize control of nationalist movement anywhere in Asia or Africa. Therefore if guerrillas are successful, the nationalist governments which they establish need not conflict with America's vital interests; successful revolutionaries will insist on and maintain their independence of China and other powers...
...troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo calls it "an exceedingly effective means of inculcating a right kind of corporate esprit de corps." Last week 40 new workers...
...Brigade. "I put on the military uniform, cap and boots for the first time in my life, and right away I felt a pleasant tension within myself." Says another: "The importance of being constantly polite and alert is easy to understand, but so hard to practice. That is one vital lesson I have learned." Such comments are particularly convincing to Japanese executives. To them, Taiken Nyutai training, brief as it is, seems sorely needed. "Japanese youth today," says one, "look like bamboo without a joint...