Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them out for himself...
...there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation...
...Eliot-Dunster game, the Elephants, operating out of their powerful T, scored once in each of the first three periods. The Funsters' spirit was broken early when Eliot tallied on a pass from Rick Hudner to Thelp Wilder. Hudner scored again in the second quarter on a wide sweep around end. The Pachyderms' final counter came early in the second half on a pass from Charlie Cabot to Rowland...
Paper World. Prior to this happy time, there had been the dismal Age of the Digest (mentioned with good-natured scorn), in which the effort of the intellectuals was to reduce knowledge to capsule form, and in which lectures and articles were turned out in a wild spirit of competition in almost inconceivable numbers, until the emptiness of a world built of paper brought on a collapse...
...article, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the college's founding, stated that in the days when "dissipations were few and properly non-enervating . . . Harvard men were the men most sought after because they were known to address their companions in Latin when the spirit moved them...