Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight days, French Canadians hung on his every word. The English-language Montreal Star even speculated on what might have been had Quebec remained part of France, and quoted one French intellectual's view: "Quebec would have played a vital role in keeping French culture alive during the Second World War. The postwar renaissance of France would have come from Quebec...
...dawning age of the surgical transplant, there seems to be no end to the variety of daring and delicate feats that surgeons are willing to try in the hope of saving patients who would otherwise be doomed by the failure of a vital organ...
...Process. Craig has long had a vital interest in education. He is a former P.T.A. president, a member of Stanford Law School's Board of Visitors, a founder of the A.B.A.'s program on Education Against Communism, and an enthusiastic advocate of the Continuing Legal Education project, which fosters state and local programs for the instruction of practicing lawyers. In speeches as A.B.A. president, Craig never tires of urging lawyers to take on responsibilities as educators. Last week, in a speech to the New Mexico bar association in Albuquerque, he called upon lawyers "to lead the American people...
...difficult to understand anybody," cheerfully admits David Silver, 20, of Grand Rapids, Mich., "but you sure get to know a lot of kids that way." "It's frantic, really," says Karen Dingle of Dexter, Mich. "The best way to use the beep line is just to ask for vital information such as 'How old are you?' and 'What do you look like?' and 'Are you a boy or a girl?' and 'What's your telephone number?' Once you have the telephone number, it's easier to talk over...
Just as bread or meat is the staff of life for many nations, for others fish is the very stuff that life is made of. Fishing plays a vital role in the economies of dozens of nations, such as Japan, Ecuador, Peru, Canada and Norway. For many food-short nations, the "panic for protein" to feed their people leads only to the sea, which now contributes a meager 12% of the supply of animal protein consumed by the human race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most...