Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this connection, the months following our presidential election may well mean success or failure for a strongly constituted Atlantic Community. Decisions of vital concern to Britain and Western Europe have been postponed until we select a new leader, and it will be important for him to be able to exercise immediate judgment based on personal familiarity with the problems in this sphere. Eisenhower's qualification of a year's experience as commander in SHAPE gives him a pre-eminent advantage here. (2) "Theirs (the GOP) is a policy of opposition at any cost, and although if in power they would...
...foreign policy is still the crucial national problem, and Senator Lodge has made a unique contribution in this area. Inheriting Arthur Vandenberg's role of reconciling Republicans to the outside world, Lodge has become a clear and consistent spokesman for internationalism within his party. His leadership in supporting such vital legislation as the Marshall Plan, E.C.A., Point IV, NATO, and appropriations for air force expansion--and his opposition to Taft-sponsored assaults on foreign aid money--have made him an invaluable member of the Senate...
While Kennedy usually votes for programs of foreign aid, he also votes to slash their appropriations. He decided to slash E.C.A. aid by 350 million dollars, helped to cut vital Near East aid by 35 million, and blustered on such topics as Teheran and China policy. The Mutual Security Act amendment to donate military equipment to Spanish dictator Franco was sponsored by Congressman Kennedy...
Compared to Kennedy, then, Senator Lodge stands out in terms of legislative leadership, originality of sponsored acts, and the realism and consistency of his foreign policy votes. Since Governor Stevenson is insisting on a bi-partisan foreign policy, Lodge is vital, for only he can dampen the wild cries of the nco-isolationist Republicans and assume the role that Vandenberg so ably carried out. It would be folly for Massachusetts to replace Lodge's seniority, ability, and usefulness with the freshman mediocrity of Kennedy...
THERE was really nothing mysterious about Santayana's line: he was a psychologist rather than a philosopher. Like the early Greeks, he was a strict materialist who used philosophy to organize the world in a practical way. He had the profound Spanish belief in the vital part to be played by custom. What he aimed at was the discovery of a civilized and permissible attitude toward life. So he saw religion as a useful myth, not because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal...