Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S posture toward the Republic of South Africa should surprise no one who has watched the growing preoccupation of American politicians with protecting access to natural resources and preserving vital economic arrangements. The Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, along with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, brought home the message that only blind faith could guarantee a steady supply of oil from the Middle East. While a re-election campaign motivated President Jimmy Carter's plans for a rapid deployment force and promises to defend the straits of Hormuz from outside invasion, there has been no equivocation...
...deal that would give the U.S. more control over use of the sophisticated radar planes. Yet Ronald Reagan decided last week to place his presidential power and prestige behind a proposal that most members had already declared unacceptable. "I have proposed this sale because it significantly enhances our own vital national security interests in the Middle East," he said at a news conference a few hours after officially submitting the agreement to Congress.* The head-on battle he thus opened will be the first major congressional test of his foreign policy...
...rigorous ongoing national debate over trimming entitlements helps direct attention to a fundamental and vital question: What level of benefits does a citizen have a right to expect from his Government? Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans could probably accept Abraham Lincoln's answer -Government ought to undertake only those functions that individuals cannot perform for themselves-although they would surely interpret it differently. Certainly a decent, and especially an affluent, society must ensure some very basic rights: no one should starve, or die for lack of medical attention. Beyond that, Government should strive to improve the lives...
...eleventh novel-the fourth and best Reinhart volume-the author of Neighbors and Little Big Man propels the huge German American into an early and energetic Gray Pantherhood. This is not the Carlo Reinhart of Crazy in Berlin (1958), Reinhart in Love (1962) and Vital Parts (1970). He has been divorced from the vituperous Genevieve-his wife of 22 years-for a decade. His son Blaine, a mulish, asexual hippie ten years ago, is now a three-piece materialist; and blubbery, myopic Daughter Winona has been transformed into an anorectic fashion model. In the past, the world had always been...
...occasionally jagged vocal lines, the more polished transitions between scenes, the improved thematic development-represent the mature second thoughts of a composer who had already completed ten of the 15 symphonies he was eventually to write. But as a rule, first impulses tend to be more vital and visceral: Hindemith's first version of Cardillac, for example, or Verdi's original Don Carlos. The same is true of Lady Macbeth. As staged by the enterprising San Francisco Opera, which gave Katerina Ismailova its U.S. premiere in 1964, Lady Macbeth showed a power and raw urgency that was weakened...