Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...
...Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does the mere fact that a picture has lost just about all the spirit of the story that prompted it condemn the picture itself as a separate entity? James Thurber seems to think so, but then maybe he's prejudiced...
...admirer, Publicist Merwin K. Hart. Franco told Hart that "other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must be rejected. It is not admissible that political tolerance can be bought by religious tolerance. If this principle...
...human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed that there really was a new spirit abroad in the world, when free people were cooperating to win a free world, and no tyranny could frustrate their hopes...
...earlier, soberer parts of the evening, the Eli spirit that might ensure such a win seemed notably absent. The game of games, in fact, seemed only to be regarded by the Blue as an excuse for a large-scale blowout. Nobody resident here appeared to be either worried or excited about the meeting in the Bowl...