Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about new math is the teaching; it is basically old math taught in a far better new way. The purpose is to replace numb learning of rote computation with a confident understanding of the structure and relation of numbers-the why of the drills. Rules and formulas are still vital tools, but new math aims to go back to the sources of the rules to show why they are valid, rather than blindly prescribing them...
...Last week, for example, one trouble team was dispatched to help a nearly blind pensioner who had called to say he had lost faith in life; the team cleaned up his dingy room, bought him food, and above all found him the companionship he needed. Life Line is so vital an addition to Sydney that it is listed on the telephone directory's page of emergency numbers, along with the police and fire departments. And Christians in Brisbane and Adelaide have been inspired to organize similar groups, using Life Line's motto: "Help is as close...
...helicopter is essential. It's all right to rent one (CH 5-8641, $125 an hour), but it is vital that you refer to it as a chopper. Go to the ball games in Chavez Ravine, but leave before the seventh inning. Get a pool table, and don't give a party unless you have a mahogany keg on the patio with draft Michelob. Get a Yorkshire terrier. Learn to think. Stay out of toreador pants and stretch pants; wear Jax slacks...
...would-be suicide closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage to the brain...
...Modern Art would not include some of his last and best pieces in its retrospective show in 1935. Many of them were never cast until the Los Angeles Museum put them into bronze for this show. But Lachaise never intended to embarrass or astonish-only to say something vital about the world in the most vital metaphor he knew...