Word: vitalness
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...rapid-fire production makes impossible the emotional or psychological depth vital to such a piece. Shifting moods and genres so rapidly, Woyzeck leaves little with which to identify or empathize; it frustrates the audience more than it maintains their gaze...
...America is to be a place where blacks and Jews can feel safe, valued and in control of their destinies, it will not happen because Jews withdraw their support of "traditionally liberal" causes. Indeed, such a withdrawal will likely lead to even greater alienation and animosity between these two vital American groups. More importantly, it will end a long alliance between blacks and Jews (such as that forged by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and more recently by Michael Lerner and Cornel West), an alliance which has as its greatest strength a shared sense of struggle...
...honor and reflect. Instead, it has become synonymous with hot dogs, hamburgers and lighter fluid. But condemnation only polarizes and inflames while leaving the underlying problem unaddressed. The plain truth remains that for many Americans, several of our national holidays have become irrelevant. In the spirit of maintaining a vital and meaningful civic culture, maybe it's time we made some changes. Here are some suggestions...
While the suggestions listed above are offered only semi-seriously, there is nothing flippant about the goal of maintaining a vital and relevant civic culture. Civic institutions such as national holidays and national anthems must have meaning in order to bind our country together...
...case Friday, when a mediation panel led by American Roberts Owen decided to leave the northern Bosnian town of Brcko in Serb control for another year. The dilapidated town, which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option...