Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clinical and field research will lead to a study of local communities in order to analyze group conflict and prejudice, orientation of residential areas and designs for housing, development of patriotism and institutional spirit, comparisons of national backgrounds, and environmental influences on children...
...hockey will reappear at least in spirit at the Boston Arena tonight at 8:30 as Harvard's once-tried puck chasers play host to a Princeton squad which will be playing its first game since...
...that might have descended on that mythical village of the old fairy tale The Snow Queen") by tramping Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
...spirit of the workshop . . . should inform every part of school. There should be a workshop for letters where poems and stories are made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but the goal of science is important. . . . Cookery, for example, is a better discipline in our schools than chemistry. The ingredients of a cake are science, art and good sense, all of which can be blended there into a very pretty simulacrum of the good life...
...incomparably easier and more wholesome to write about divinely pagan healthfulness than about holy disease. We may amuse ourselves at the expense of the former, the fortunate children of nature and their artlessness; we cannot amuse ourselves at the expense of the children of the spirit, the great sinners and the damned. ... I would find it utterly impossible to jest about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky as I have occasionally done in a novel about the egotistic child of a lucky star, Goethe, and in an essay about the colossal loutishness of Tolstoy's moralism. It follows that my reverence...