Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staffer says he thought Humphrey was surely going to die. Blood transfusions and rest brought him back fast, and his doctors told him he was fully recovered. Today his step is springy and his mind swift. "I'm still a workaholic," he says. "I'm still vital...
...enrolled at Ohio University last fall and won the starting center position on the junior varsity. Then, last October, he was suddenly cut from the squad. The university had decided to adopt a recommendation of the American Medical Association that any player with only one of a pair of vital organs should be disqualified from contact sports. Thus Borden, who had lost one eye in a childhood accident, was out-or so it seemed until the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit seeking his return to the team. Last week the U.S. District Court in Columbus told the university...
Cockroach Milk. When Russia burst triumphantly into literary history in the 19th century, it was hardly surprising that most of her great writers were steeped in folklore. "Each one is a poem!" said Pushkin, who, like Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, used folk tales as vital elements in his work. The selection of folk tales in this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic...
...hearing conducted in French, English and Cree, it soon became clear that the Indians' livelihood and culture were inseparable. As members of the last cohesive hunting societies in North America, they lived in a vital, even religious relationship with the animals they chased and ate. A Cree family band ranges over hundreds of square miles, fishing and hunting with the strict procedures and skill that amount to ritual. Bear bones, for example, are never thrown to the dogs. The Cree believe that animals shun being captured by people who show disrespect...
...Dorothy Day still presides over the Catholic Worker Movement from her tattered but vital hospice for the poor, St. Joseph's House, just off Manhattan's Bowery. Today 47 urban "houses of hospitality," inspired by the one she founded in New York, provide hot meals, and sometimes shelter, for the down-and-out. Some are tied to companion farms in the country in keeping with the back-to-the-land ideas of Co-Founder Peter Maurin...