Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cockpit of Aeromexico Flight 498, Pilot Arturo Valdes Prom was helpless. Glistening behind him in the noonday sun were the falling remains of his plane's horizontal stabilizer, a part of the tail that is vital to maintaining control. Also fluttering to the ground was the fuselage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer that had collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with...
...will dig in, talking about a tune with the fluid confidence of a seminar master. Indeed, he has taught a few songwriting classes, and can cut loose about "pressure to keep music either raw and unsophisticated or to keep it young. On the one hand, that might make rock vital, but on the other, one reason my generation has stopped listening to music is that it doesn't have anything to do with their lives. In the '60s, it was what was happening in your life, in the life of your community. Now you hear what's happening...
...more than any other artist of his time to rekindle that idea and recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...discussions at the Vienna International Center opened, however, the amiable, and often impenetrable, dialogue was marred by doubts and mistrust. Some Western experts complained that the Soviets were too stingy with vital technical data about the April 26 disaster, and too reluctant to admit to design flaws in their reactors. The Soviets insisted that their designs were basically safe, and that "gross" human error had caused history's worst nuclear power catastrophe. Said one Canadian expert: "They seem to be saying, 'You can criticize our operators but not our machines...
President Ronald Reagan lacks a vibrant intellect and vital knowledge, two former presidential advisors told a Kennedy School audience last night in a symposium entitled "Presidential Leadership 1936-1986: FDR, JFK and Reagan...