Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 8--Five days before the arrival of the first contingents of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, the saccharin spirit of racial reconciliation which followed the death of Martin Luther King last month has been replaced by one of tension and hostility...
...offer Jews the "purposeful life" of a pioneer at a time when more affluent Western societies seem to "lack a social motive." Despite the uncertainty of their future, the Israelis themselves still find advantage in that life and intend to show the world this week that they have the spirit and the military strength to keep...
There is little doubt that William Gass is speaking for himself when one of the characters in this collection of short stories says: "I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath. Body equals being, and if your weight goes down, you are the less." Coming from a man who makes his living teaching philosophy at Purdue University, such a flat-out assertion seems a little unusual. But then William James pledged in his diary to "care little for speculation; much for the form of my action...
Radcliffe decided to approach its seniors this year to get them "in the spirit of giving," and to influence other alumnae, according to Miss Balter...
...Giving Spirit...