Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flight of the Spirit of St. Louis and Friendship 7" details the historic flights of Charles Lindbergh and John Glenn...
...heart of Harvard Square to bring it closer to the University and make it a truly "urban memorial." Leaving the memorial to be surrounded with large ugly buildings will only show the worst of urban America and will naturally detract from both the physical stature and the spirit of the entire complex...
...nothing approached Die Frau ohne Schatten. Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto requires a primer course in the mythology of six cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer...
...order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom. The Reform Jews go considerably farther, believe that it is the spirit rather than the letter of the law that matters and argue briskly that Halakah has no binding authority...
...Sense of Play. What is needed, he suggests, is more laughter among parents, children and teachers, since laughter "opens pathways to the discovering spirit," produces "a shared understanding," and "like love, it demands response." He argues that in their obsession with work, Americans have lost their "sense of play"; yet "the children's world must be our world, too. We may have to ask our way in, and we may be impolitely and properly asked out, but we must be there, if only to be looked at and puzzled over." Eble regrets the stuffiness of teachers' colleges that...