Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yilin. "I have had to order him to take a rest," said Chou. "I understand you have issued a warrant for his arrest. Such a warrant amounts to one for the arrest of all members of the party's Central Committee. I must say I support your revolutionary spirit, but I must also say that you have to abide by the dictates and disciplines of party organization...
...present, Richard S. Bowers Jr. '68, said the group had attended the meeting `in the spirit of constructive satire." He denied that their actions had been disruptive. Several other YR's however, identified the unruly faction as the same persons who had disturbed previous Young Republican election meetings...
...national level, the spirit of ecumenism has produced plenty of talk about interfaith union, but much of the real action is now taking place at the grass roots. In a number of U.S. communities, togetherness has become a reality, as churches of different denominations have cooperated to create new ecumenical parishes. Though it can take any of several forms, the ecumenical parish has behind it a basic conviction that the churches must cast aside their denominational autonomy and pool resources to meet the changing needs of community and religious life...
...sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement for admission to Communion...
Finnegans Wake represents the failure of that grandiloquent scheme. But it is a failure so brilliant that it can still illuminate the mind and gladden the spirit of all who do not regard words as mere tokens or tools, who see them as playthings capable of magic, creating awe by liturgy, or laughter by a conjurer's sleight of alphabet...