Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fine frenzy, often disingenuously clever, unqualified assertion, propoganda for one cause or another, and, in fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...
...force the issue on a burning question such as Prohibition there would be less cant and hypocrisy in the party in power, and elections would be something more than personal mud-slinging contests. The present American party system is the most ingenious yet devised to obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation is rather unpopular among American college graduates. If only for the reason of some definite set of principles to uphold and fight for, the radical and progressive minorities offer much stronger attractions to the politically minded than...
...indignant as Rabbi Wise's: "Have you ever contemplated the stu pidity of our people in permitting our municipal machinery to be run by politicians . . . who frequently are men who have no education, who know nothing about government, finance, sanitation, city planning or anything else that is vital to ... a great city...
...vital point in Canada's proposal is that Great Britain should put a tariff on now-Empire goods of all sorts but especially on wheat, which Canada wants to sell to the Mother Country. Last week Mr. Baldwin, without directly saying so, definitely implied that he will not stand for this tariff on "foodstuffs" which would raise the price of British bread...
...politics, two women and the stock-market have been among the vital interests of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. All of his brethren deplored his gambling in stocks, and at the Dallas convention of his church last spring, he tearfully promised to gamble no more, was forgiven (TIME, May 26 et seq.). But four of his brethren in the South still deplored his conduct in general, which they felt unfitted him for the service of God. While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear...