Word: vitalize
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...prequels, the teenaged girls who watched and re-watched “Titanic” with their friends, and the office workers gathered around the water cooler all illustrate the social importance of the blockbuster; though the form may fall in and out of favor, it is too socially vital to ever go extinct...
...boozing spell it “St. Patty’s Day.”In Ireland St. Paddy’s Day is a nationwide holiday, a huge tourist draw, and a giant display of national pride. To us, the descendants of Irish immigrants, the holiday is a vital affirmation of our culture and our place in America.Hungry and trapped in distressing poverty, our ancestors fled their homes for a strange new land. Persecuted for their religion, considered by nativists to be something less than human, the first Irish to arrive in large numbers on American shores showed their...
...light-saber epic changed Lucas too. A graduate of the USC film school who also felt a kinship with Bruce Conner, Scott Bartlett and other members of San Francisco?s vital avant-garde scene, he had made two features before Star Wars. In 1971 he hatched the stainless-steel-cool, THX138 -a project received by its sponsors at Warner Bros. with so much bafflement and meddling that it stirred in Lucas a resolve to be a truly independent filmmaker. In 1973 he moved to the middle with American Graffiti, a feel-good blast of instant-nostalgia (it re-imagined...
...interests of the children whom the charity helps. In this case, the empirical facts are too compelling to ignore. It would be simply unjust to condemn these many children to the instability of foster homes because of a clash of values between the Church and state with, though vital, fewer tangible effects...
...chief among the reasons why undergraduates are so devoid of a broad historical narrative in which to situate the little nuggets of ephemera they receive from the hodgepodge of Harvard history classes. It’s this condition that makes History 10a’s mission is more vital today than ever before...