Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Political Defense against the spread of Communism, Brigadier General David Sarnoff, board chairman of RCA, has stood out as one of the most imaginative strategists of the cold war. Last week, after receiving the National Security Industrial Association's second annual Forrestal award for "outstanding leadership in encouraging vital understanding between industry and government in the interests of national security," General Sarnoff put forth another idea-a plan to ease the shortage of science and mathematics teachers and thus reduce the odds against Soviet superiority. "I propose," said Sarnoff, "the establishment of a 'National Educational Reserve' comprising...
Jack Hawkins, whose part in itself could be the subject of a movie, is perhaps a trifle unsteady for the calculating position of the Interrogator. But his incisive dialogue, and later, his moral resolution, are carried with distinction. Benjamin Frankel's music--vital, transcendental, and in the style of Honneger--adds significantly to the composite. The Prisoner may well prove to be the best movie of the year...
Although Mother Advocate is aging, and during the war sickened almost unto death, she has apparently recovered, and with each year, despite her retiring air, has become more vital. An evidence of this is in the Advocate readings, which feature undergraduates and other promising but unrecognized writers. Further, its contributors are re-publishing with the Atlantic and other magazines, as well as with general publishers, more each year...
...advance makes war more likely, because then an aggressor may miscalculate. The policy of deterrence is only one aspect of the task of maintaining a just and durable peace. It is necessary to be patient; it is necessary to be conciliatory; it is necessary to make our peace a vital force for justice and human welfare, so that all men will aspire to share that kind of peace. My views with respect to peace have been made known on many, many occasions, and there is no reason to think that they have altered because the article, like others dealing with...
...stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...