Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party-line Vito Marcantonio) lined up with 178 Republicans to pass the bill. Triumphantly, Bob Taft declared: "The President has power today to check nearly all of the principal causes of inflation if he really wishes to do so." This was taken by most Washingtonians in the partisan spirit in which it was offered. Even so-and despite cartoonists' jeers-a start had been made...
...banned from church services by the late Cardinal Villeneuve as lacking in musical taste and religious spirit...
...Christmas angel and Star of Bethlehem for a timely nylon ad-a painting hardly more offensive than the mawkish Madonnas and cute little representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What on earth had happened...
...every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more vivid -especially at Christmas...
Black-robed Choirmaster J. Earle Hines* took over a scraggly group of 60 voices a year and a half ago. He picked his new singers on the old religious credo that who sings well prays doubly. Says he: "I tell my folks they got to feel the spirit inside before they can sing it out. Spirituality covers up for voice...