Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symptomatic of the stirrings within the realm that 19th century English Clergyman-Critic Sydney Smith dismissed contemptuously as "that garret of the earth, that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur." After dour decades of stagnation, the Scots are surging forward with a new spirit...
...rarely land even an unclassified Government contract and thus can easily afford to complain that secret research is academically immoral. In addition to the argument that such research commits the university to aiding what they consider an unjust war, the anti-secrecy professors contend that classified contracts violate the spirit of free inquiry on which scholarship depends and that they make professors agents of the Government...
...treasure house of resources. I may inform you in all frankness that nobody-and that includes ourselves-knows exactly the wealth we have in and on the ground and in our seas. Indonesia is waiting for you to bring your advanced technology, your experience, your capital and your entrepreneurial spirit...
...there, lucid only in their awareness of their own power to shock and paralyze. The numbed passengers can only respond in ineffectual cliches. "What kind of people are you?" screams one, all too aware of the answer. The Negro (Brock Peters), sensing in the punks' violence a kindred spirit, attempts to make friends, is brutally rebuffed, and finally collapses in empty sobs...
...movie opens with Mother's death. Her children are left unsupervised, and they decide to keep it that way. But life will go on as it always has because Mother, though buried in the garden, is present in spirit. They ask her advice at late-evening services...