Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spender, who along with W. H. Auden is recognized as one of the leaders of British letters today, is teaching at Sarah Lawrence College this year. Most successful as a lyric poet, he has been influential in rekindling the spirit of European culture. He was graduated from Oxford...
Look at the Saizburg Seminar: the guiding spirit was a non-Council member, Clemens Heller 1G, who came to the Council with an idea that everyone called impossible--before imagination and hard work brought it to successful reality. Look at the just-released evaluation of General Education's firs year: the sub-committee chairman who sweated this widely-praised document into shape was another non-Council man. Paul Ben Coggins...
Virginia's high-type extroversion naturally has led to an immense school spirit. After the game, every home-state license plate read "Virginia...
...Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...
...earlier times, it was a spirit that terrified decent citizens. Beating up the night watch was for centuries an accepted sport. Breaking windows and starting brawls for the fun of it was standard fun for young men of good family. Up to the first years of the 19th Century, wrote Burke, "the Prince [later George IV] was an example of the men of his time; gamesters, drunkards, haunters of the lowest dens, careering about the streets at midnight . . . and having with it all a number of accomplishments, informed minds, sound scholarship, and taste in literature...