Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They discovered not only some of his wildest humor, but also his deepest tenderness, and his sense of how quickly the mind, in its movements, can leap from tenderness to humor, or from deep sorrow to humor. They discovered too Joyce's vision of man's hope, the optimistic vitality epitomized by Molly Bloom (Barbara Jefford), the Earth Mother, but well-represented in her husband (the "womanly man") Leopold. In the vital mind of Molly or Leopold, the choice is humor when humor and sorrow coincide. The Blooms opt for Joy: at Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom thinks mournfully...
...university as the strategic source of qualified manpower, must assert its vital economic role to prevent reductions in its budget or faculty...
...attitudes and actions at home and abroad," he said, "too often give the lie to our sincerity. It is vital that we make our practices match our principles." Otherwise, he warned, the U.S. faces not only a "succession" of long, hot summers at home but the "equally forbidding prospect of a long, hot century" throughout the world. Romney clearly would like to be the man to bring principles and practices together, and recognizing that his major deficiency is in his unfamiliarity with foreign affairs, is now planning a 19-day look-and-learn trip through South America later this spring...
...Army engineer and key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...
3.Disclose to him those Chinese vital interest which are allegedly more important than life itself, so as to pre-empt a position ahead of time and warn him it is not negotiable...