Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as he once again cleared the air, Reagan further obscured it. The President saw no point in telegraphing any of the other moves that Washington may have in mind to deal with a region that is stubbornly aboil with Marxist-inspired insurrection, and where the Administration feels that vital U.S. interests are at stake. As Reagan put it at his White House press conference: "I just don't believe that you discuss those options or what you may or may not do in advance of doing any of those things...
...because of the Soviet threat, must rush to be all places at once. There are no priorities established, no evidence of making tough choices, and despite threats by Congress that cuts would be made one way or another, Carlucci last week adamantly refused to say which weapons were more vital than others...
...emptively and categorically rule out more direct use of force in El Salvador, which is what some of Haig's cross-examiners in the Senate seemed to want him to do. Any nation, but especially a superpower, must reserve the option of armed action in defense of its vital interests. To foreclose that option in a nasty little crisis close to home would raise new questions about American defense commitments all over the world. The other half of the dilemma is that if the U.S. does resort to force, it must do so-and be seen...
...Weber's Der Freischütz, or the full flowering of the twelve-tone system with Schoenberg's Op. 25 Piano Suite. Endings, however, are more elusive. When precisely did the Baroque conclude? Did the symphony die with Brahms or Mahler, or is it still a vital form? These are moot questions...
...years ago with his mathematician wife on a similar journey) lies in a state hospital, her face criss-crossed with tapes and tubes. After a coronary and a stroke, it is only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism, the matriarch who called the shots for a circle of loyal women spread out over thousands of miles, from Chicago to Bucharest. Corde comes to understand her more, to love...