Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When the formula is obtained, it is plain that predicted Rank List will join the other "vital statistics" in the back of the candidate's folder...
...better than uniformity without it. Jesus was extremely interested in the individual and in his spiritual integrity. People need to cooperate in doing the works of Christ, but they need to do it in their own ways, with their own government of the church, with each one having a vital part in it. We have had enough of "ecclesiastical bureaucrats" and of the hierarchy...
...industrial Massachusetts, where the need for skills is vital, the Labor Department's regional director of apprentice training, Hubert Connor, has only 4,000 in his apprentice programs...
...systematized variation, judo. But where their aim is to use an opponent's own weight to throw him to the floor without necessarily injuring him, karate aims at increasing its user's own strength to kill or injure an adversary by striking him at any of 26 vital points-chiefly with the toughened edge of the hand or the clenched fist. Although used by Japanese troops during World War II, karate is considered too ferocious for the U.S. armed forces. Nor do municipal police forces take regular karate training. "In no court," said one police official, "would karate...
Finally, Camus appears as a man in conscious conflict with himself, as a man of profound Christian instincts but a humanist by faith. In all his controversial and critical writing, he constantly appeals to the principles of a Christianity he repudiated. When Camus touches directly on this issue, vital to the whole pattern of his life, he becomes, for the first time, almost tongue-tied. In an address to Dominicans who had invited him to speak, he wonders aloud whether he is in danger of being a "lay pharisee" when he claims the right to ask Christians to be Christians...