Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin and Greek are worthwhile studies for English concentrators, but other fields are equally worthwhile. History, Government, and modern languages, for example, are certainly as vital to most present English honors candidates as the classics. Unfortunately, the English Department's honors system isn't based on modern times. It harks back to the days when Latin and Greek were about the only non-scientific fields in the academic world...
...Wagner Act, which was vital in 1935 to guarantee the right of labor to organize, has certainly become an unbalanced law with the growth of union strength; and the Taft-Hartley Law, passed in an aura of bitterness in 1947, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to cover a multitude of labor-management problems by federal legislation. But the closed shop is a basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover...
Saith the Preacher. What is to be done about this? Man, says Koestler, must make a tremendous effort to put his two vital impulses together in such a way that they will restore him to balance. He must be self-assertive, i.e., he must give full rein to his "exploratory" nature, and by thinking for himself, break through the "horny crust" of habit and convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing...
...more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm, the American correspondents, the travelers ("Russia is simply wonderful so immense so throbbing earnest vital people so happy everywhere thrilled with communism building socialism") and the overwhelming sense of relief upon reaching Constantinople...
...European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful at the same time of Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong or right; they merely shouted "Wall Street...