Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farnsworth suggests that the promotion of mental health, a necessity for world peace, rests primarily with college graduates. "If the colleges and universities will not take the lead in a matter so vital as the rapid development of the mental-health aspects of the behavioral sciences, neither we nor they will be left to contemplate the error...
...slightly over-done. Judith Gilmartin, the pretty widow looking for a Spanish husband, performs with a coy grace. Bob LaCrosse is adequate for a small part; Leslie Buncher falls off his timing; and William Meador, the gaunt suspicious gamester, stumbles on his lines occasionally, and unfortunately calcifies a vital role...
Except for Sonny's moments of inspired brathood and tantrums, the only really bright, vital character is an extremely likable boy who appears in Act II to take the reluctant Reenie to a dance. He commits suicide before Act III. Depressing as this may be, it is the strongest act in the play, and it brings into sharp focus an otherwise loosely meandering world...
...into his own stomach and pumped oxygen in to prove that the life-essential gas could be given by this route (he was the first to apply this technique to "preemies"). Then came detailed studies of the physiology of preemies (showing just what development handicaps they suffered), and other vital topics, such as the effects of a mother's illnesses on her unborn child, and what substances, from hormones to antibodies, pass through the placenta from mother to child...
...However," he added, "the incident left a latent uneasiness in Britain about the role of the United Nations in events concerning vital interests of Great Britain...