Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs, long used to following the leader, followed American democracy in much the same spirit as they accepted U.S. jazz. When MacArthur ordered them to hold an election, 27 million of them trooped to the polls. They organized Western-style political parties and prepared to accept a Western-style constitution. When they were ordered to cease worshiping their Emperor as a god, they willingly obliged...
Evangelist of Reason. When he was 19, Wells wrote an essay called The Past and Future of the Human Race. Seldom thereafter did he tackle a less ambitious subject in a spirit less sanguine. He disliked and soon left the evangelistic Protestantism in which he was brought up; but he always remained the most passionate of Protestants, the most eloquent of evangelists...
...British authorities, eight natives were convicted of murdering Mensah, and sentenced to hang (TIME, Dec.11,1944). Mensah, the Crown contended, had been sacrificed to provide blood to daub a ceremonial stool which represented the late Sir Ofori; or to provide Sir Ofori with a companion in the spirit world; or both...
...ritual murder, was hanged at Maseru, Basutoland, 3,000 miles from the scene of the Gold Coast mystery. John Makume was a Sunday bell-ringer in the local church, and his little gang of 16 men were "all educated and professed Christians." John, 75, had dispatched to the spirit world a 60-year-old shoemaker, had made "medicine" from the head, heart, lungs. In Basutoland such a medicine is believed to increase a chief's prowess in battle, boudoir, and law courts. Clearly, it had not worked for John...
Cellini's art had been well-tailored for a discerning market and highly polished enough to reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. Dali's purely subjective and surprisingly slapdash illustrations...