Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid standards, he had good reason to be pleased. Weber's Freischütz overture seemed to have been freshly recreated. An oldtime Cherubini symphony had such subtle grace and elegance that it was accepted as important. Most surprising was the Saint-Saens Danse Macabre which sounded extraordinarily vital, not a measure of it hackneyed or cheaply melodramatic. After the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Götterdammerung, the audience would have stayed long to cheer. But Toscanini was through. He bowed briefly, tugged at the concert master's sleeve, his own private sign that he wants...
...most vital problem with which this country, and, for that matter, the whole civilized world, has to deal, is the problem which has for one side the betterment of social conditions, moral and physical, in large cities, and for the other side the effort to deal with that tangle of far-reaching questions which we group together when we speak of 'labor...
President Lenox R. Lohr of National Broadcasting: "To accept such dramatic programs as you have offered would place the discussion of vital political and national issues on the basis of dramatic license rather than upon a basis of responsibility for stated fact or opinion...
...naturally has become easier to make the course attractive when students do not in general take it only to pass off requirements. But the reason for this year's success lies deeper than that. Philosophy A this year has been a vital course principally because of the skillful, painstaking work of its new lecturer. Unhurried, a little reluctant to face such a large group, yet sincere and thorough, he has kept the whole 200 attentive, in fact made them enthusiastically interested in the subject...
...course will probably embrace studies in city planning, public health, budget making, sanitary engineering, public housing and other topics vital to the general welfare which the public servant is supposed to serve. It should make an important contribution to the practicability of college training. Oklahoma Daily