Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roberts' article of April 15 is open to the same criticism. I can sympathize with his point of view. Oxford is so vital, genial, and beautiful that few Americans with any sensibility can visit it without the feeling "Why cannot we have this in America?" That was how I felt after three weeks there, in the gorgeous summer...
...fighting for the rehabilitation of the States; for the preservation of their rights under the Constitution; for a larger measure of self-government and a more vital State; for less centralization and more individualization; for more reality in politics; for more interest in government; for a higher intelligence; for a broader tolerance?all because in the last analysis these are factors in the great equation of political liberty. This is the one touchstone by which all government must be tested. And I sincerely believe that our fundamental liberties are in jeopardy...
...creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers and denticulated terraces into...
...Harvard is the first university in the world to make any such effort towards teaching the vital or dynamic side of psychology. Hitherto, all that has been taught and investigated is the static branch of the subject, which has not in itself any essential significanes...
...habit once established has a fair chance of invading the graduate's realm, always provided the elements of comfort are supplied. Both in college and out, a vital connection exists between cultural conversation and the baser materials of life...