Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Language. "The whole world . . . has lost that common spiritual measure which conferred upon the medieval and classical civilizations their grandeur and their sense of unity. . . . The words liberty, authority, spirit, justice, democracy, truth take on as many different meanings (and often incompatible ones) as there are standards of evaluation in our heads. ... At Babel, men divided because they began to speak different languages. Our situation is worse: we all pronounce the same words but at the same time give them different meanings...
...movie has a certain well-mannered style and spirit which Hollywood seldom gives to a medium-budget mystery. (It might also be noted that Britain would have difficulty turning out a Dark Corner or even a Blue Dahlia, which had a certain rude style and spirit of their own.) Best thing in the picture is Scotland Yard (amusingly played by long-jawed, quinine-flavored Alastair Sim), who is almost as bungling as he is smug, and never loses his complacency, even over his worst mistakes...
...nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
Koreanizers. In Korea, Baldwin was shocked at repressive measures used by the military government. "There is no spirit of crusade in Korea. We started out not with the idea of democratizing Korea but of Koreanizing it. We would pick Koreans-the wrong kind-for administrators, then wash our hands of responsibility for what they...
...guests and killed the driver. But he has never let his university become a center of violence ("this vain doctrine, this pagan torch"). From his own turbulent life, he has learned that the future of the Hebrew University lies elsewhere-"not by might, nor by force, but by [the] spirit...