Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours before their meeting, defines more clearly the doubts which the student leaders discussed in their first letter to Johnson, Dec. 30. In that letter, the student-body presidents and newspaper editors reported that increasing numbers of students across the country doubted that U.S. interest in Vietnam were sufficiently vital to justify our growing commitment there...
First, you asked if America's vital interests are sufficiently threatened in Vietnam to necessitate the growing commitment there...
American literature has often been starved for lack of a grand theme-a Tolstoyan war, a Flaubertian passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...
This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...
...Longfellow and Larsen Halls the space requirements of the Graduate School of Education had not been met. Most pressing is the want of a library, because the limited space at present available for library purposes in the basement of Longfellow Hall is shockingly inadequate for the large and vital school for education we have now created here. Plans for a new library and research building are being drawn. It is estimated that this building will cost $5 million. Towards this goal an application has been made to the Office of Education of the Federal Government for $1.5 million, and additional...