Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is much bigger than the U.S. The whole industrialized world is getting polluted, and emerging nations are unlikely to slow their own development in the interest of clearer air and cleaner water. The fantastic effluence of affluence is overwhelming natural decay-the vital process that balances life in the natural world. All living things produce toxic wastes, including their own corpses. But whereas nature efficiently decays-and thus reuses-the wastes of other creatures, man alone produces huge quantities of synthetic materials that almost totally resist natural decay. And more and more such waste is poisonous...
...made one last desperate effort to save The Harvard Lampoon. He administered a cartoon featuring a gawky three-legged bird laboriously laying an Easter egg as large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...
...addition, amnesty is a vital precondition for negotiations on other issues. We cannot negotiate with a sword over our heads. Without amnesty, we run the risk that any formal concessions we win will be short-lived, politically empty and easily betrayed...
...Christ and His Body or, in more general terms, as mankind (which includes womankind) itself. Thus the villain is no longer just the hierarchy or the clergy as generally implied in such sterile digressions. The sex of the theologian is hardly a theological topic. I suggest there are more vital issues to discuss...
...problems discussed above the committee may get into the traditional issues like the inequalities between the Houses and the role students ought to have in making House rules (parietals!). Mainly, however, the work of the new committee is an attempt to reconstruct House life to solve equally vital long-term problems...