Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essentials, they constitute straight imperialism, a twentieth century version of Manifest Destiny. The argument runs like this: If Germany wins, she will dominate huge areas of the world's best markets. Our foreign trade may make up only seven per cent of our national income, but it is a vital seven per cent. With our major customers forced to deal with Germany, we will have a catastrophic economic collapse, and in the ensuing dislocation and poverty, native fascism, encouraged by Hitler's success, will rise in our midst...
...potent medium for disseminating its ideology--this is good because here the dancing really says something important to the spectator, and does not just fill the eye with spectacle. Certain naive ballet companies, too, are experimenting with dances on American themes. This may become a successful genre, and a vital branch of our culture. Until it does, the ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Original Ballet Russe, and the other remnants of the Diaghilev troupe, remains here on suffrage, kept alive by a demand for spectacle of a highbrow, somewhat snobbish, sort...
...taken time off from his work with the C.C.C. educational program to engineer a new book. This time he has teamed up with Thacher Winslow '29 administrative assistant in the N.Y.A., and collected thirteen essays dealing with what Mrs. Roosevelt calls in her foreword "one of the most vital problems of our society"--the problem of meeting the threat to democracy growing out of a jobless, drifting, and disillusioned generation of young Americans...
Small-town doctors, lawyers and editors have lately paraded between the covers of successful books. Now it appears that the preacher, a still older and more vital part of small-town U. S. life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...
...YORK--Wendell L. Willkie, addressing the millions who voted for him for president, urged them tonight to continue to fight for the principle of his campaign as a constructive opposition vital to the "balanced operation of democracy...