Word: esprit
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...Democrats faced nearly insurmountable odds. Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "In these assessments, Congress comes off as a sorry, almost pitiful rival to the President. The brave initiatives of last January have become the cruel frustrations of now. The Democrats have lost their momentum, their sense of purpose and esprit. They are floundering in a political morass. They see themselves as disarrayed and helpless. But if with 289 members of the House they cannot act, they might as well call in the dogs. The hunting will be over...
...aware that Harvard alumni have historically cultivated "class spirit," so beautifully satirized by the caricatures of "professional alumni" in John P. Marquand's H.M. Pulham, Esq. Such esprit de corps has traditionally been used as a fund-raising vehicle, and for this reason, there has been considerable alumni opposition to the abolition of the separate freshman year. However despite the fondest wishes of the Development Office and the Harvard College Fund, the "class identity" which F. Stanton Deland '36, chairman of the Board of Overseers, exhorts is being considerably eroded by the taking of leaves of absence. In fact, recent...
...right of peaceful assembly "to seek redress of grievances was corrupted into violence, and freedom of expression into license." Words such as fatherland crop up repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough, disciplined, confident esprit of the German soldier" at the start of World War II and urges a reawakening of "duty, loyalty, patriotism." His conclusion is no less fervent: the fatherland "asks only that we do our duty as her [sic] son or daughter, as we understand that duty...
...Jumpers, do flips and build pyramids. A shot flings one Jumper out of his pyramid. It seems to be a gag until he bleeds. Next day the cadaver turns up in the bedroom of ex-Singer Dotty Moore, at whose party he was mysteriously murdered. A good deal of esprit de corpse ensues until the poor chap is lugged away by his fellow Jumpers in a huge plastic bag. The deceased in fact is a professor of logic named McFee. Like McFee, all the Jumpers are professors of philosophy at the college where Dotty's husband teaches. They have...
...person; the name was repeated, says Anderson, "for old times' sake.") Continues McDowell: "The party scene in Lucky Man! was shot on Sunday-for free-because it was not in the budget. Lindsay asked if we would do it, and every single actor came in for nothing. The esprit de corps he gets from actors is amazing...