Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only that he doesn't like capitalist art, which is quite all right, but something other than a law of nature. And his peroration is dubious. "This leaves us the Revolutionary ideal of the emancipation of mankind from the Capitalist grasp as the only inspiration for a really vital art in the present and future." I protest, as a connoisseur of prophecy. Mr. Philbrick can see into the future no farther than John Doe and I, and anyone who cared to predict the exact opposite would be just as right as Mr. Philbrick. It is shrewd to confine dialectic...
While it is true that such regulations are purely matters for each House to decide for itself, still they are not for that reason completely removed from the category of University interest, especially when, as in the present instance, the regulation concerns a vital part of the House Plan, and is such a one as other Houses are considering for their libraries. Hence before the Adams House Plan is accepted by other Houses it might be well to consider some of the objections to the proposal. This caution is doubly necessary, for these objections are too likely to be overlooked...
...brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks is interfering, to go to hell, to get off the lot. By the time the last few loads are mixed, even anti-Bolshevik readers will...
...will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite all the efforts of the Administration this sector of business is still deep in the dumps; this particular fillip may not do the trick but at any rate it indicates that Washington has its ubiquitous eye on a vital spot...
...particular conviction upon which it was based. The only result will be that communists throughout the world have one more reason to enforce their contempt of capitalism as an intellectual adversary. The same congested mentalities which interfere with academic freedom are evidently at work here. From Christianity down, no vital movement has been so much as delayed by the exercise of an obvious prohibition such as that to the right of meeting. Those who have exercised it are the buffoons of history, uniformly funny and disreputable. No one thinks of Comstock today as anything but a rather bad joke...