Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bishop, Varnava Nastich, was born 36 years ago in Gary (Ind.). In the nine years he lived there before going to Serbia, whence his parents had come, he breathed in the spirit of freedom along with Gary's stench and soot. In Serbia, Nastich worked against Tito's Communists and was brought to trial despite his position in the Orthodox Church, which the Communists cuddle. Here is part of his interrogation by three half-literate Montenegrin judges...
...Cruel Spirit. The truth of his statement was illustrated when Berlin's City Assembly met to debate the quiet terror which has gripped Berlin's Soviet sector for months. Anti-Communists have been disappearing daily, without a trace. Related Frau Annedore Leber, a Socialist deputy: "Today again I had a strange visitor who wanted to know about my political life and what sort of guests come to my house. That is why I am as much concerned about the fate of Maniu, Petkoff and Masaryk as I am about the fate of my closest friends. . . . There...
...experimental spirit of Dunster men has reached forth into almost every phase of undergraduate activity, and even beyond. First to inaugurate forums where discussions range from socialism to semantics, the House has most recently innovated student-taught classes in the fine arts of rhumba, contract bridge, and barber shop harmony...
Never too busy to have a good time and always willing to work for something it wants, Kirkland House, many say, most nearly represents the true essence of House spirit as it was conceived some 17 years ago when the House system was inaugurated...
...House where just about anyone can feel at home, Winthrop has the most heterogeneous population of nay of the dwellings along the Charles. Here athletics, scientists, socialites, and promising novelists rub plastic trays in the subterranean dining halls, and if there is little united spirit, there is instead a rare atmosphere of live-and-let-live...