Word: vital
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Adams had a well-developed, if dry, sense of humor as his rendition of this incident with Franklin indicates. And The Book of Abigail and John, a Bicentennial offering from the Harvard University Press, offers more of this side of history. It is a vital living collection of the correspondence between John Adams and his wife Abigail Smith Adams from the days of their early Weymouth courtship until their reunification in post-war Britain in 1784. It is a story of real people and their concerns, fears and accomplishments in a world turned upside down...
...capacity. The President wants 200 nukes in operation by 1985 as a key part of his program for national self-sufficiency in energy. "It is time to set aside emotion," adds Frank Zarb, chief of the Federal Energy Administration. "We must get on with the job of utilizing this vital, clean and abundant energy source." Without it, he says, the U.S. would be at the mercy of foreign oil producers, a prospect that he fears could be "devastating" to the national economy...
BECOMING A Bruce Springsteen fan was comparatively easy. At the time his first album appeared three years ago, rock music had fallen into a state of premature senility, seemingly the victim of wastes accumulating within its vital organs, musical arterioscleroses. The new performers, almost universally terrible, offered no hope for salvation: the anonymous heavy metal shock troops were in the forefront of rock, along with glittery personalities from trendy London (or maybe L.A.) and, worst of all, the pre-teen baby rock groups. True, some of the trusted standbys (the Stones, the Dead, a few Beatles) were still alive...
Harvard's All-American captain, Philippe Bennett, watched intently from the sidelines, enjoying a day of rest in preparation for his encounter with an All-American foil adversary from the New York school. Coach Edo Marion gave many of his second-string fencers some vital varsity experience in the S.M.U. route...
...ARCHIVE ALONE in Harvard Square will serve as a spur for a $50-million Harvard Square development project that is vital to the welfare of all of Cambridge. Without it most of the MBTA subway tract will revert to the state--possibly leading to uncoordinated development of the Square's southwest sector...