Word: vital
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is only part of the treaty which could end the present battle, for there is a vital procedural question involved. It is the matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only...
...vital strength of the music of the people gave composers the solid foundations on which to build the great tonal structures of classical music. The influx of popular musical ideas has never stopped.. The countless other adaptations of the dance by all composers continually emphasize the persistent influence of dance rhythms and forms. The last century has seen an unprecedented exploitation of folk-song in the music of Tchaikowsky and the rest of the Russians as well as of the composers of most of the other European nations...
...contrary, I pledged my sacred word to the German people to do away with the Treaty of Versailles and to re-tore to them their natural and vital rights as a great nation...
...extent to which I am securing these vital rights is modest...
...Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose up as expected (TIME, Oct. 9) to announce the downfall of Britain's month-old Ministry of Information. After bitter onslaughts in press and Parliament, Mr. Chamberlain intimated that the Ministry's unwieldy staff had been drastically curtailed, its most vital function transferred to a new Press Censorship and News Distribution Department of the Government...