Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underlined the importance of maintaining the missile program which has produced the Atlas long-range ballistic missile. He also advocated multilateral foreign aid with emphasis on medical and educational help to underdeveloped countries. "We must also negotiate for disarmament and support the United Nations and its function as a vital instrument for preventing war," Colson declared...
Turning to depressed areas and urban renewal, Harris, who helped write the Kennedy-Douglas area development bill, declared that massive Federal aid is vital, for "depressed areas account for 1/3 to 1/2 of our unemployment." And it is an absolute minimal necessity "for slum clearance to equal the rate of growth of our slums." The Republican bill for depressed areas amounted to $50 million in aid, he said, while the Kennedy-Douglas bill offered $250 million...
...merely that there is little cumulative drama, so that the evening is edged with dullness. There is little poetry either, and not really much psychology, and no guarantee of history. Though Henry and Becket are set squarely beside and then against each other, there is no vital force to the conjunction, or fire to the conflict. Finally, there is no unifying tone; in language and attitude, Becket skips blithely across centuries, shuttles nonchalantly between styles...
...than trivial plays had inspired it: a dissatisfaction with the shabby world that Shelagh Delaney knew at first hand, and a sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant, is cared...
...vital factor which at once works for stability and constantly threatens national unity and coherence is the division of the country into the three regions of West, East, and North, plus the separate Federal capital, Lagos. On the face of it difficulties abound in running a federation in which one of the Regions, the North, is far bigger in area and somewhat bigger in population than the other two federal units combined. The situation is complicated by the fact that the North, still centered about its strong Muslim emirates, has moved much more slowly into the modern world than have...