Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED - Genteelly disguised melodrama, cleverly tricked out by California sunshine into an air of vital profundity...
...these policies run counter to British policy in Egypt for vital and obvious reasons. Zaghlul Pasha would probably, if elected, have hesitated to put any of his policies into effect, for the simple reason that to do so could mean only war with Britain. But as Premier he would have been persona nan grata to the London Government, because, as before, he would undoubtedly carry on propaganda through his Nationalist organization, the Wadf, against the "usurper" of Egyptian rights...
...Vital as is the disbarment of this law, only public education will assure the maintenance of America's fundamental rights. And any majority, however much annoyed by the proddings of dissent, must face the unanswerable logic of Mill's plea for free speech: majorities may be wrong; and when they are right, they can best prove it by letting the minority talk...
...This vital danger we are trying to meet in the program before you. Fortunately, we are surrounded by old friends and allies, and so we can consider this issue without panic, and calmly plan the measures for developing a scheme of defense that, however remote may be the possibility of danger, is none the less necessary to our national security and status. Let us not brood morbidly over remote perils, but, rather, take a sustained interest in the problem of defense which must be faced...
...importance than, say, the foundation of a new scholarship or the sorely needed endowment of a laboratory or a professorship in one of the branches of the arts. Harvard is not an overwhelmingly rich college, over-endowed and able to spend as much as would be desirable in the vital business of education. And even without consideration of the financial side, is it not also a dangerous thing when a subsidiary part of the curriculum threatens to become paramount in importance? Good as it was, the 47 Workshop was not everything...