Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those doing the legwork, it was a matter of finding and questioning a lot of people, big & little, who had the vital big & little facts. Gibbs groped through candlelit corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
Setting for the show is a labor union meeting in which the stage will be speakers platform and the spectators will represent the attending union members. Odets' stage directions call for audience participation and reaction, which are vital to the mood of the play...
...will be the policy makers, the planners, and the leaders of a world in which we must spend our days. We can think about the crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only optimists left alive in Europe or Asia-or let it die, and with its death, let tumble the victory of progress over cruelty and degradation, won so recently...
...often the value of parochial education has been injected into just this type of argument. There is no place in the case against the Ewing Township Decision for any conclusions about Church schooling. This form of education plays a vital role in society, but a role apart from the educational mechanism fashioned by the state for public use. Any mixing of the two structures, if only to prevent exclusion of any groups from the benefit of welfare legislation "because of their faith or lack of it," is mistaking state paternalism for true freedom. A state cannot be allowed to subsidize...
Along this same corridor lies a chunk of Rumania. Since last summer, Russians have been arriving in large numbers. Rumania's vital Black Sea port, Constanta, now has some 50,000 of them-as many Russians as there are Rumanians. They have their own schools, shops, theaters and restaurants. In most Rumanian cities King Michael's photo is flanked by those of Rumanian Premier Petru Groza and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin; in Constanta bars, shops and hotels, Stalin's photo gets the center...