Word: inspirit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educational administrator will be to find ways of encouraging this process to move more rapidly in constructive directions. In some ways, this conclusion is disappointing. One longs to attack the problems of undergraduate education quickly and systematically by an eminent committee that will find some grand design to inspirit both students and faculty. Yet the limitations of the committee process seem sufficiently profound to suggest that such efforts will fall far short of realizing objectives of the sort I have enumerated here...
...Sunday Telegraph. Now, Worsthorne argues, the U.S. presence in Viet Nam "may have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
Frantic and Languid. Armah's fiction is stiller and clearer. His second novel, Fragments, is set at a lower voltage than The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his first novel about the failure of revolution to inspirit his fellow Ghanaians. But contempt for his countrymen still seethes, this time because they are corruptly devoted to cars, tape recorders and neon "WELLCOME" signs at airports. Baako, his fragile hero, cannot adjust to such trinket worship. His sister's premature baby dies when the family too quickly presents it at an outdoor festival because they are anxious...