Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compete directly with European farm products. Britain is asking Europe's Six to limit their own, costlier food production by keeping farm prices low. However, the Common Market nations would promise nothing more specific than "reasonable" prices, while Britain demands hard and fast guarantees on an issue so vital to the future of the Commonwealth...
...proliferating profession that swarms with specialists of fiercely focused brilliance, Spaceman Holmes supplies a varied and vital collection of talents. At 40, he had already earned a reputation for big-league engineering triumphs. He had taken charge of RCA's $40 million Talos antiaircraft missile program and had made the complicated bird fly right on its first try. ("The first Talos we fired at White Sands," Holmes remembers with pleasure, "knocked the target drone so flat they couldn't find the engines.") He had bossed the design and construction of BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System...
...impressed Congress delegates asked 900 questions about the Charter, including the vital one: How will it be implemented? Replied Nasser genially: "That's a question I have asked myself...
Stodgy But Vital. Frans Hals, one of the finest of portrait painters, recorded an era of Dutchmen who, aside from a few laughing fisherboys, gypsies and assorted tipplers, must have been a pretty stodgy lot. Yet Hals gave them a vitality that still jumps from the canvas. Hals never worked from sketches; he drew simply and directly with his brush, building his invariably harmonious compositions almost by instinct. He wasted no time on frills or dramatics; his presentation was straightforward, sometimes even stark. Yet his brush was so light and fluid that even when his subjects appear in a void...
...teaching, where it may best be looked for, and why it is hard to appraise; and about research and the humanities vs. science rivalry. He deplores rightly that an excessive research-mindedness has produced a condition where "foreign languages are taught as mere tools rather than as the vital center of humanistic studies they once were...