Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monk was her immediate fascination, and Monk, who only has eyes for Nellie, cheerfully took her on as another mother. She gave him rides, rooms to compose and play in and, in 1957, help in getting back the vital cabaret card. The baroness, along with Monk's gentle manager, a Queens high school teacher named Harry Colomby, collected medical evidence that Monk was not a junkie, along with character references by jazzmen and musical scholars. The cops gave in, and for the first time in years Monk began playing regularly in New York. The music he made at the Five...
...sent it to the Senate. The breakdown on the vote was interesting: 152 Democrats and 138 Republicans voted for the measure; 96 Democrats and only 34 Republicans voted against it. In other words, in one of the most lopsidedly Democratic Houses since the days of F.D.R., Republicans were vital to the passage of a bill for which the Democratic Administration means to take full political credit this year...
...read armloads of 17th century histories. She had studied the score and plugged herself into her nocturnal-education tape recorder so often that I Puritani had seeped down into her subconscious and kept drifting out all day in soft, idle humming. In pursuit of her ideal of "vital musical theater," she had directed acting, lighting, costuming, singing and playing through weeks of strenuous rehearsal...
Housing is vital to the creation of a sense of community that could deal effectively with neighborhood problems. But President Johnson's message dealt only with the importance of neighborhoods in the suburbs. He failed to see that the need for them is greatest in the city...
...Russians, on the other hand, got along fine with everybody-and why not? Noblesse oblige, you could call it. "Now, that is something on which I expect you are already well informed," smiled saucy, blonde Lidia Skoblikova, 24, when a reporter boldly inquired after her vital statistics. The No. 1 star of this or any other Olympics, Speed Skater Skoblikova picked up her fourth gold medal of the games last week in the women's 3,000 meters and posed gaily for photographers with all four strung around her neck...