Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirchner's drawings are perhaps his purest and most beautiful work. They mirror the feelings of a man of our times, instinctively and without premeditation. Besides, they comprise the formal language of his prints and paintings, that other part of his work in which a conscious will operates. The vital power of this will, however, derives from drawing...
...Clamshell seems to have opted for visibility in order to persuade others to support its cause. Its methods are commendable for orderliness and courtesy. The issues at stake are more serious than the indeed serious threat to marine life that you cite. The Clamshell protesters are crusaders in the vital cause of saving us and the generations to come from the terracide being risked by reckless and shortsighted officialdom...
...side of the President that he tends to keep under very stern control. Yet they have also been an indispensable part of the presidential quest from the beginning (Jordan first worked for Carter in 1966, Powell in 1969). Now that their man has achieved his goal, they fill several vital functions-confidants, sounding boards and "no-men"-at annual salaries of $56,000 apiece...
...work with recombinant DNA (TIME cover, April 18), none has been more widely publicized than the mass production of insulin by re-engineered bacteria. If these tiny insulin factories could indeed be created in the laboratory, they would yield a virtually unlimited supply of the hormone, which is of vital importance to many diabetics. Last week scientists at the University of California in San Francisco reported that they had taken an important first step toward that goal. Using the bold new technology, they not only gave a bacterium potential insulin-making capability but also got the bug to reproduce millions...
...insisted that when "a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude" was involved, a President could readily use otherwise illegal acts, including burglaries (he preferred the euphemism "warrantless entries"), wiretaps, mail openings, and IRS and FBI harassment against any "violence-prone" dissenters. But if this was so vital to national security, why not ask Congress to make such acts legal? "In theory," said Nixon, "this would be perfect, but in practice, it won't work." It would alert the targeted dissenters, he said, and raise a public outcry...