Word: vitality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House lifted the swaddling curtain for the first fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...permitting social freedom, providing a house library for study, offering better living quarters, and encouraging student faculty associations could stimulate intellectual accomplishment and social development." Indeed faculty participation in the new residential housing system, (a resident professor and his family would be included in each house) is considered a vital part of the new plan. The division between students and faculty could be breached, it is hoped, by "personal, social, and intellectual direction" from the faculty to the members of the house...
Second, ethnic and linguistic homogeneity are vital to a functioning democracy and are really the basis on which American democracy developed. But India, for example, which has recently been plagued by language riots, has many different ethnic groups, he said...
...fourth and extremely important condition is that the government be compatible with the collectivist society of industrialism. Universal suffrage and tremendous concentration of economic answer are both vital to democracy in an industrialized society, Niebuhr maintained...
...magazine, one should work for no more than ten days as a copy boy, and perhaps leaf through a couple of issues. The author's novel wears his experience like a potbelly. In repeated passages the reader senses that Brinkley is not really interested in writing about "Vital" magazine; he is memorializing bar-car grudges and enthusiasms, thrashing editorial villains and offering prosy bouquets to office heroes (naturally, these are writers who muster the courage to quit and take honest jobs). But Brinkley has shown originality in his formula, for literary success-he writes the sort of book that...