Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years-and not merely because the Communists were thrashed in their attempt to take power by democratic means. Marxism has never succeeded at the ballot box. The bigger news is the man and the party that won: Eduardo Frei and the Christian Democrats, who are rapidly emerging as a vital new force, not only in Chile but in all of Latin America...
...more limbs. Except in the rare instance of a mother's taking a harmful drug such as thalidomide during pregnancy, the causes of these congenital deformities are seldom known. But the effects are only too evident: in some cases, arms and legs end in misshapen stumps; in others, vital bones are missing from legs and arms, leaving the limbs partially disabled...
What is so disastrous about the Theatre Company's production is its total insensitivity to the vital complexity of Eliot's work. In fact, David Wheeler has directed the play as if it were nothing more than a drawing-room comedy. His actors spoil the beautiful rhythm of their lines by deliberately stuttering and halting over them for a kind of dramatic effect. All the dramatic effect one can possibly ask for is right in the dialogue; one simply has to speak it naturally. As a result of this superficial treatment, much of the metaphor of the play goes unnoticed...
...fourth front, potentially more dangerous than those in Kwilu, Kivu and Maniema provinces, had been opened only 100 miles north of Leopoldville. A band of uniformed, well-armed rebels crossed the Congo River border from neighboring Brazzaville Congo, took control of several towns and cut the vital Route Nationale, the combination of river and rail links that connects Leopoldville to the nation's eastern reaches. The welldisciplined group confidently boasted that it could take over the capital "in less than three weeks...
...status symbol to stun the visitors. Caving in to Western mining-state demands, Congress approved funds to mint 45 million new cart wheels, as recommended by neatly lassoed Dillon, who called them "a traditional medium of exchange in many Western states." So they are, in one vital area of commerce: there's no earthly way a greenback will mediate with a Las Vegas one-armed bandit...