Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Master Jazzman Thelonious Monk [Feb. 28]. Mr. Monk deserves more than a narrow cult of followers. Although his musical explorations are personal and uncompromising, their emotional appeal is broad and basic. Anyone witnessing a performance by his group will realize that Monk's dramatic "stage presence" is vital to the dignity, humor and discipline of his music...
Lord, for years now I've been watching all the vital juices drain out of Cary Grant's face. In this latest, it must surely be genuine leather, its deep bronze tone accenting the skim-milk white of Audrey Hepburn's cheekbones. Audrey, (whose back may be old from her front by the position of her face and the direction her shoes are pointing) will pursue Cary avidly. But he will grant her nary a peck--contending she's young enough to be his granddaughter--until the last hundred feet of film, when he'll propose...
Sorensen is not concerned with the executive machinery or with Utopian plans for its overhaul. He states his thesis simply: "the fundamental nature of the White House makes it inevitable that vital decisions, either many or few, will be made there, either by the President or with his consent, and that the same basic forces and factors will repeatedly shape these decisions...
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...patent, which grants a person or company the exclusive right to an invention for 17 years, is a vital industrial weapon. Patent logjams can slow research and development-a company is reluctant to go ahead until it knows that it is protected-and result in costly litigation. Only three weeks ago, after 17 years of hearings, examinations and appeals, Sperry Rand was finally granted a patent for the first logic system or basic system of its electronic computer...