Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of elaborate facilities," Burrell said. "The Old Vic started on $200. Get the vital, surging spirit of man acting on this thing. The great comedians are tremendously vital people--Duraute, Hope, and the rest--a good actor is as vital as that. The really talented actor needs hardly any training. He needs mostly the chance which Englands offers: the opportunity to keep acting in many parts, becoming more versatile and imaginative...
...this debate was a necessary one; a discussion of the technical and strategic aspects of nuclear warfare without Oppenheimer would be, in the old phrase, like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Yet, for so serving his country, for giving his well informed and experienced opinion on a vital matter of state, he is now heavily penalized. He took an easily misrepresented position and that was enough, apparently, to make out a prima facie case of disloyalty against...
...demoralization of the Voice of America, Stassen's defeat in the Greek Ship squabble, the humiliation of the Pentagon, and the disruption of the State Department, the Oppenheimer episode seems part and parcel of the process by which the government, through one branch or another, has stultified its most vital agencies and suppressed many brilliant and thoughtful...
Section instruction in all six courses should receive particular attention. Teaching fellows are ordinarily graduate students in science, unfamiliar with the methods of explaining their field on its simplest level. Problem solving, the terror of most students, yet vital for an understanding of fundamental principles is especially hard to teach. Graduate students in the School of Education who are preparing for a career in science teaching would be better suited to conduct sections...
...will welcome a bill just introduced in the Senate by a Democrat. This bill would require quarterly reports to Congress and the public on how many security risks have been separated each month from the Government, and exactly what type of risk they were. A detailed breakdown is vital, for only once in the past has there been an effort to distinguish between so-called "security risks" and actual subversives. Communists, criminals, perverts, and alcoholics--as well as people accused only by rumor--have all been lumped under the heading "security risk." The only past breakdown, pressured through...