Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visiting Kiwanians, receive a photograph of himself attending the Washington banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and bandy civilities with such characters as Mississippi's Representative Rankin and Missouri's Senator Briggs, who had little to do with matters of state. Full of the Christmas spirit, Harry Truman still liked to see everybody...
...India's ponderous election campaign (the provincial elections will continue for four or five months), Lord Wavell spoke his mind on the mounting spirit of violence. Said he emphatically: India's political problem "cannot and will not be resolved by violence. . . . No solution will be satisfactory that would result in chaos, bloodshed...
...does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...
...spirit of the Gospels was not handed down in a pure state from one Christian generation to the next. To undergo suffering and death joyfully was from the very beginning considered a sign of grace in the Christian martyrs-as though grace could do more for a human being than it could for Christ. Those who believe that God himself, once he became man, could not face the harshness of destiny without a long tremor of anguish, should have understood that the only people who can give the impression of having risen to a higher plane, who seem superior...
...Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...