Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergraduate scientist faces an equally difficult allegiance. He is preparing for a specialized vocation from moment he starts science at Harvard. The junior in physics is a physicist, cut off from his professionally uncommitted classmates. He's measured by tough professional standards, and his performance is vital to his future. By sophomore year, his choice of career is over, and his career has begun...
...seeing disease as "a vital expression of the human organism," he finds a use for psychoanalysis in discovering the causes of the individual's specific psychosomatic creation. Consonant with this theoretical approach, his therapeutic technique concentrates on the analysis of symbol formation in dreams and from free associations. Symbolism belongs to the It (as it does to the Freudian Id), and thoughtful insights into examples of individual and cultural symbols such as the bisexuality of Christ on the Cross spice the entire book. More important for us, Groddeck brings to light some striking instances of symbolic symptom construction that modern...
...Said Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, in summing up the two-year work of his Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, which was created find out if the U.S. Government is geared to manage the cold war: "There is still much to be done in defining our vital interests and developing a basic national policy which supports them...
Kurosawa's Shakespeare inevitably-and fortunately-involves more Kurosawa than Shakespeare. With blunt and vital irreverence the director has translated Shakespeare's words into Japanese images, Shakespeare's lords into Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance...
...prepare to Invade . . . there is an invasion attempt, which is repulsed, but no counterattack on the Chinese mainland. Eventually hostilities peter out. In the meantime we have nevertheless moved the seating of the Chines in the United Nations--Just as If nothing untoward had happened. It would be vital to follow this apparently contradictory policy. . . .[Hobson's emphasis...