Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is one vital question which I would dearly like to ask Cardinal Gushing. In the unlikely event of a poor widow asking him personally whether she should marry a divorced man, and one of a different church, would he have given the same reply as the one to Jackie Onassis? Would he have announced to the world at large that this poor widow was "free to marry whomsoever she likes" and that talk of her being a sinner was "nonsense"? If he replied no, then he would have been guilty of believing in one law for the rich...
...York City. These problems are part of the reason why it is one of the most colorful and most fascinating cities in the world. I wouldn't trade the cramped, pol luted, noisy and ungovernable city for any purified and antiseptic community in the U.S. New York is vital, New York is exciting, and New York is obviously where it's happening, baby. It may be a mess, but it's a beautiful and thrilling mess...
...course, some suspicion that Tito is overdramatizing the Soviet threat in the hope of obtaining more Western economic aid to offset his increased defense expenditures. Most Western military men regard the possibility of an attack on Yugoslavia as unlikely for two reasons: 1) Yugoslavia is not geographically vital, as is Czechoslovakia, to the Soviets' defense system, and 2) the Yugoslavs, unlike the Czechoslovaks, are obviously determined to go down shooting. At present, there are no signs of Soviet preparations for an invasion, and winter snows will soon give Tito at least a few months of safety...
Died. Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...
...deadly spectator who helps kill drama. He is the theatergoer whose only conception of good theater is that it be nice, decent, reassuring and uplifting, but never marrow-chilling or soul-devouring. Playwrights themselves propagate dead plays, since most of them cannot fulfill the single most demanding requisite of vital drama: "A playwright is required by the very nature of drama to enter into the spirit of opposing characters. He is not a judge; he is a creator. The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another-a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov...