Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focal point of any funeral service is the body of the deceased and has been for centuries, but it is in no way intended to de-emphasize eternal life inherited by the spirit. . . . My personal experience in deaths of my own family has been such that I would rather remember them in a restful, composed position than in the final struggles for life. . . DELWIN W. HURD Minot...
...they interested in the moral and spirit ual uplift of our country? Are their lives indicating this interest...
Last week the answer from all continents was a fatuous yes. The answer missed the point; Gandhi was a rarer human being-a good man. He disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...
Architects, Wright believes, should concern themselves as much with human aspirations as with human needs. "Organic" architecture, he concludes in the FORUM, must have "the integrity, where the human spirit is concerned, of a tree or a plant. It is that character in the buildings shown here that should interest...
...Chamber promptly sent one of its men scurrying to compile a list. Such attention to the smallest business, plus a special brand of California civic spirit, has made the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce one of the most successful forces of its kind in the world. Last week, it totted up its achievements for the past year. It had 1) helped get freight-rate reductions on steel from Geneva, Utah; 2) promoted a $1 billion state highway program with special benefits for Los Angeles; and 3) persuaded 200 new enterprises, with about 7,800 new jobs, to settle...