Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue at stake is complex, technical and peculiarly vital to Siamese under sentence of Death. In the opinion of His Majesty, Premier Bahol was wangling into a new law clauses under which the King is deprived of his right to pardon a condemned criminal or to consent to his execution...
Your editor then goes on: "If the church is to continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them." This is indeed a dangerous doctrine, all the more so because of its prevalence among our leaders today. Your editor will recall that Jesus of Nazareth didn't attempt to "extract the virtues from existing institutions." Quite the contrary, he fought the two most powerful of these institutions with all the physical and intellectual force which he could command. These two institutions were the Money-changers...
...church is to continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them. Only by forgetting the dubious idealism of a bigoted theocracy can it hope to guide the American people into a new era of spiritual regeneration...
...quite justly I believe, all writers to adhere to--namely, to communicate to his readers an idea or set of connected ideas. Lacking for the most part any suggestion of a plot his stories, if they can be called such, do present a series of vivid and intensely vital experiences. "I am an Armenian," he says. "I have no idea what it is like to be an Armenian or what it is like to be an Englishman or Japanese or anything else. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. This is the only thing that...
...think of it--and not too unjustly--as, locally at least, a collection of nice old gentlemen and dowagers, sentimentally busied with international relations who meet on Saturday afternoons in that most dowager of hotels, the Copley Plaza. Yet, in the light of the above, their unique and vital importance must be clear: they furnish a tribunal, disinterested and acquainted with the main issues, before whom the State Department must justify, must rationalize its policies, while the research and publicity bureaus which the Foreign Policy supports place an added check on the Departments arbitrary action. The more intelligent state officials...