Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair to call this mood a new form of isolationism? Columnist Walter Lippmann, for one, does not shrink from the word: "If it is said that this is isolationism, I would say yes. It is isolationism if the study of our own vital interests and a realization of the limitations of our power is isolationism. It is isolationism as compared with the globalism which became fashionable after the Second World...
Nearly six years ago, Indiana's Republican Congressman Charles Halleck overthrew aging Joe Martin as his party's House floor leader. In so doing, Halleck got vital help from a small but powerful group of young insurgents, including Michigan's Gerald Ford, who wanted a more aggressive, positive leader. In Halleck, they got all the aggressiveness they could stomach, and very little positivism. Last week Jerry Ford and his rebels were out to oust Charlie Halleck...
...political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled in terror; vital provinces tried to secede; and the land, neither administered nor policed, reverted to darkness. Howling all the while about white imperialism, Patrice Lumumba himself did not hesitate to sell the exploitation rights to the Congo's vast resources to a fast-talking American promoter...
...called "Departures and Distractions," which is illuminating in several ways. In it, the ladies have followed most of the current idioms, from abstract expressionism to hard-edge relief, from assemblages a la Stankiewicz to painting in debt to Jasper Jones. In the hands of the artists shown, these potentially vital forms have become empty and lifeless. If nothing else, this show should prove that using abstract means doesn't make a poor painter look any better. These relatively talented amateurs have failed; shouldn't this quiet those who have always claimed that "any child could...
...York absorbs all. Well actually not quite all. Two million commuters, we suppose, are never precisely absorbed. They leave their smoke--some non-vital essence imported from Tea-neck or Great Neck. The commuters, with their tired, tidal restlessness never know New York beyond the Newark bus or Long Island Railroad schedules. They scurry, a testament to the fact that New York is the most take-it-or-leave-it city in the world...