Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University realizes, of course, that the freedom of the student to engage in legal political activities is a vital component of present educational policy. Harvard has never tolerated even implicit outside restrictions of questionable legality on its students. A prompt stand against yielding to an HUAC subpoena would reaffirm this tradition. Pusey, however, has written the committee a letter stating that the University should wait until it receives a subpoena before taking a stand. Pusey said he wants to postpone any decision until he can understand the terms of HUAC's possible request...
...second and most vital blow came from the present turmoils of the so-called Great Cultural Revoluiton. The violent and sometimes ridiculous path of the revolution his disgusted and dismayed the bulk of nations, except for those socialists, who claim to be fervent pro-Chinese...
Luce's curiosity was insatiable-he sprayed questions in all directions wherever he went. Correspondents, notified that H.R.L. was about to appear in their territory, frequently gave themselves cram courses of vital statistics about the area to cope with his barrage of queries. The ride in from the airport was legendary, and many a correspondent prepared himself by making the run a couple of times with a guide-only to have Harry ask him about some distant ruin he had failed to notice. It was even more disconcerting when Luce knew more than he did-as when TIME...
From Ford, he borrowed the idea of using communications satellites, if they prove economically feasible, in a public, noncommercial system; from Carnegie, he took the idea of strengthening regional program-production centers and local stations as a guarantee of diversity. "I am convinced," he said, "that a vital and self-sufficient noncommercial television system will not only instruct but inspire and uplift our people...
...prejudicial reporting really a problem? After all, only about 10% of U.S. criminal defendants plead not guilty and stand trial. Only a fraction get into the newspapers: from 1955 to 1965, U.S. papers devoted only 3% of their space to crime news. Americans believe that publicity is vital to justice; the press has often dug up evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should hold pretrial hearings in private, grant continuances...