Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defeat for the Spirit...
...found your story on "The Julio Incident" [March 8] particularly disheartening. An armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
Under Miller, the Divinity School sponsored the first major conference of Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars--in the spirit of the second Vatican Council--in 1963. A similar conference of Jewish and Christian scholars was held last year...
...similar physical set-up conveys a completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...
WHILE he employs these conventional symbols, he also develops his own calligraphy to visually communicate otherwise intangible essences. Evoking the petty frenzy of the city, the pathos of a serious little king, the baroque speech of a gossipy lady, the spirit of Los Angeles, and the monumentality of a romantic clock, he uses familiar objects and simplistic design to capture the soul of his subject...