Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder that Yovicsin can't stop praising his 17 seniors? And why he spent most of his pre-game instructions on strategy, leaving much of the emotional and psychological preparations up to these seniors? Before every game this year, Yovicsin ended his chalk talks with three simple but vital words: "Seniors, take over." He would leave the locker room, and the seniors would communicate with the team as only they knew...
This difficulty in finding a range of expression grows all the more because modern music finds the chorus little suited to its techniques and styles. The glee club is denied a vital place in the emerging music of its own day--and it must therefore fight to make that of the past more than nostalgia...
...their increasing versatility, machines lack a vital quality that even the lowliest mutt possesses: they cannot understand their master's voice. This situation may soon change. Last week International Business Machines Corp. demonstrated a small, innocent-looking gadget that may some day permit machines to follow spoken orders, and even eavesdrop on human conversations...
...much, many old people drink too little, suggested Brooklyn's Dr. William Dock. "The carefree attitude derived from alcohol, so dangerous for the automobile driver," he said, "is most helpful for the aging parents of normally ungrateful children, for the man or woman with failing sense organs or vital organs, with dying contemporaries and narrowing circle of friends," or with income eroded by inflation...
...Davis performance, the voice does only half the job, and maybe less than that. His guitar becomes an animate creature, vital to the song. Unlike so many of the new style folk performers, Davis uses his guitar to provide more than a tonal background. Often the guitar will answer the voice or repeat the melody; sometimes Davis just starts singing a phrase and trails off, letting the guitar pick up the melody and finish it. This is done so skillfully (and perhaps in some cases unconsciously), that the listener hardly notices the change in instruments...