Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics both in New York and Boston have praised it as 'interesting', 'important', 'vital', and 'original', particularly as a musical score. The Harvard performance was sponsored by a Faculty Committee who have a reasonable amount of critical competence...
...German treaty, said the pact was a "final invitation" to Great Britain and France to "collaborate" in a European peace. Neither he nor any of his colleagues was at a loss to describe what they meant by "collaboration": Great Britain and France were to provide the dictator countries with "vital living spaces...
...thing was certain: The day that Joseph Stalin finally decides to cast his lot with Britain and France will be a particularly black one for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. After that, the acquisition of "vital living spaces" should come hard for the Fiihrer and Il Duce. There may not even be room enough for them at home...
...warned that if Germany and Italy try to take advantage of the confusion at present surrounding negotiations for a tribe entente to grab more territory on the "pretense of vital space," France is determined and ready to use force to preven any extension of totalitarian hedgemony...
This is merely a question of decency and courtesy in which no students need any instruction. To most people the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion have a vital meaning. If some students disagree, they should be polite enough to keep it in the family. Again, there are certain emotions and fetiches--memory for the dead, patriotism--which the ordinary American holds sacred. This ground should be inviolate, and no one should lightly trespass...