Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to work for TIME. They are unqualifiedly confident, however, of their ability to get along in a civilian world that is more complicated than the one they left. Because TIME'S future, like the future of the U.S. itself, depends so much on the returning veterans, that spirit is a heartening thing...
...mankind's last chance. With the
development of atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the
issue which transcends all other social and political issues." spirit within us."
Saint Anthony of Egypt has repre sented for i, 600 years the spirit of renun ciation. To many painters and writers -including Bruegel, Diirer, Cezanne, Flaubert, Anatole France-St. Anthony's lifelong struggle with the flesh & the devil symbolized one of man's most terrible dilemmas...
Ruth Posselt, in the Sonata opus 108, flung herself into the music (endangering the limbs of the 30 people sitting on the stage), turned the first movement conflict into one hell of a brawl, handied rhythmical complexities with fine spirit, and, despite an occasional aggravating tremolo and an E string that was always about to roll over and die, gave a satisfying and exciting performance of the piece...
Promise v. Fulfillment. The Russians had promised to begin evacuating Manchuria three weeks after the end of the Japanese war. Apparently they were keeping the letter, if not the spirit, of their pledge. The Red Army had withdrawn from much of southern Manchuria; by early December the evacuation should be complete. But as the Russians withdrew, an estimated 60,000 Chinese Communists, equipped with Japanese arms, poured in with amazing rapidity; and more were on the way. Chungking's World Daily News asked the $64 question: "Who has made this possible?" The Russians had declined to open Port Arthur...