Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Embryo Rebellion. It was just as well that the yuletide spirit had taken over. At midweek L.B.J. had to handle a highly touchy situation: nine Democratic Governors arrived to tell him what was wrong with him. Lyndon Johnson kept his Christmas cool throughout. He knew that he was dealing with an embryo rebellion that, unless handled well, could imperil his own future as well as that of his party...
...spirit world is fairly crackling with activity these days, and mostly for fun. The sale of crystal balls, especially the large $25 size, has risen roundly in Los Angeles. Manhattan Importer Edward Weiss has completely sold out his stock of Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly...
...visually, spares earthen colors, such as ochers and umbers, to enhance the clashing confrontation, as in the cloaks, of liquidy greens and reds. The carved and gilded frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin is no longer hieratic and remote; she is instead a distillation of young girlhood and Bavarian beauty...
...evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach to discipline based on respect for the individual student as a potential leader of men. In the same spirit, a curriculum once narrowly limited to engineering and military skills has broadened into a liberal-arts program designed to stimulate critical intelligence...
...throwing away Inquiry and Expression and turning all freshmen loose in specialized writing seminars like the middle-group course. "We just can't do that," says Rosenblatt, "with people who haven't demonstrated the ability to put sentences together." And for those, it will probably always be questionable whether spirit or renaming can make Gen Ed A more than a necessary evil of the freshman year