Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was one cheerful note. Russia's new regime announced that for the first time in 13 months of grain rationing, everyone would be issued 41 extra Ibs. of flour for the cabbage pies that seem vital to the Russian soul...
Douglass, who has championed these experiments despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...
...landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. It was one of the earnest but powerless organizations that existed in many cities across the land before cities realized that their inner renewal and reshaping was not just a matter of esthetics but of vital budgetary economics...
...horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh discipline of Negro life" has instilled in Negroes certain admirable qualities that are lacking in most whites: patience, humor, a "rugged sense of life." Ellison's own life in Oklahoma City, he reminisces, was happy and vital, even though it was segregated, even though his mother was thrown into jail several times on various pretexts because she insisted on living in a white neighborhood...
Twenty-four Harvard Faculty members joined more than 1500 colleagues from 192 American colleges in signing an almost full-page as in the New York Times yesterday asserting that "peace is the vital issue" and that "the best chance to promote the causes of peace will result from the election on November 3rd of Johnson and Humphrey...