Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy was furious. In a hastily called news conference he denounced the U.S. House of Representa tives for a "shortsighted, irresponsible and dangerously partisan" action. The House's Republican leaders, he snapped, were guilty of "a shocking and thoughtless" attack on a program vital to U.S. security...
...Ways and Means Committee vote was a vital first step toward passage of a tax bill. But several steps remain-and the bill could stumble on any one of them. Even with House passage, it must go through the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd, who opposes a tax cut unless it is accompanied by deep cuts in spending. Byrd has not yet even started to hold committee hearings-and he is in no rush to begin...
Whatever its final shape, Penn is growing up fast. Once provincial Philadelphians, its students now come from 48 states and 83 foreign countries. Once given to favoring alumni, it now promotes teachers on merit. Penn's faculty is vital, distinguished and outspoken. Academic freedom is real. The once sleepy school beside the Schuylkill River still lacks a crackling intellectual air. But it has the will, the leadership, and-as ever...
...most vital opposition to the U.S. often came from students, and Reischauer's frequent lectures at Japanese universities brought him into regular contact with this articulate group of critics. He takes great pleasure in relating his encounters with them...
...justification for this giveaway beyond a mystical belief in the inferiority of government enterprise to private enterprise--in this case a private venture consisting solely of the expectation of huge profits, but without the trouble-some details of capital investment, risk, or that free competition widely supposed to be vital to the "individual initiative" giant corporations are thought invariably to exercise...