Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Americans who see foreign-language films, more indeed can follow the original dialogue than Crowther maintains. And for those who cannot, subtitles provide the sense without depriving anyone of the vital, special sound of the original. This way, everyone in the audience is served; with dubbing, a large portion of the audience is cheated. Crowther also dismisses completely, as the eminent novelist-critic-essayist Carl Van Vechten remarked in his letter, the sizable number of deaf people, for whom subtitled movies constitute almost the only satisfactory theatrical experience. In addition the preservation of the original sound acts...
...nine straight months, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week, the U.S. birth rate has run below the previous year's corresponding months. For the first five months of 1960 there were some 1,676,000 births-or 1.9% fewer than in the same period of 1959. By strange contrast, marriages rose by 3.7% in the period...
...year ago, there were only 15 Congolese with university degrees. In contrast, 15,000 Africans from the French colonies have received degrees from French universities in the past ten years, form a vital cadre of teachers, doctors, engineers and bankers necessary to the development of the new republics. Said a French government official with pride: "There can be no comparison between French and Belgian policies in Africa. They were diametrically opposed. Compared to the Belgian Congo, French Africa is overdeveloped...
...cruises at 350 m.p.h., carries 92 passengers, takes less runway than even a DC-4 and, at a pinch, can get in and out of airstrips only 2,000 ft. long. It has self-contained air starters for its turboprop engines and therefore does not need ground power-a vital factor in equipment-short Congo. Merritt's men sleep when and where they can-in hangars, machine shops, the planes themselves. They have been joyfully received in the Congo, and ground personnel as well as Congolese volunteers help in the unloading without pay. There have been no accidents...
...years, during the inevitable, muted crises, he will ask himself where he took the decisive turn. Was it the school he went to? The wife he married, or did not marry? The job he took? His creator, one of the best social novelists the U.S.has produced, considered these questions vital. Again and again, he said that men are shaped by their environment, and no writer could match him in describing the environments that cradled or smothered, polished or abraded, buoyed or drowned his heroes. But in the end, his people are shaped by the past to which they are born...