Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paying tribute to Mies van der Robe [Aug. 29], you managed to list his achievements yet retain the spirit of his modesty. You said more by saying less. I'm sure he would have appreciated...
...Viet Cong, who admired Ho hugely. One defector noted that the guerrillas have long dreamed of seeing Ho riding triumphantly into Saigon, which then would be renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Nobody expects the V.C. to lay down their weapons because that dream has dissolved, but their righting spirit could be affected...
That would be a significant development indeed, for one of the remarkable things about the Communsi forces in Viet Nam?whether guerrillas or regulars from the North?has been their spirit. The young men sent to the South, as U.S. fighting men have painfully discovered, made excellent soldiers. Tough and well-disciplined, they stood their ground under massive American firepower, then rose to charge. And the battlefield was only one test: the struggle southward along the tangle of jungle paths called the Ho Chi Minh Trail often lasted four to six months, during which many perished of disease, malnutrition...
...national unity, to stay on as Vice President of the country-though not of the party. Kapwepwe could scarcely refuse and risk being cast as an unpatriotic villain. At a press conference in the Vice President's villa, he withdrew his resignation in what he described as a "spirit of selflessness...
...deducting a work's original cost-rather a wrench if he had the wit to buy it 20 years ago -or b) claiming its current value and paying capital gains tax on the difference between that and its initial cost. Neither alternative is apt to encourage the philanthropic spirit. "Countless treasures that come to us under the present tax laws will be cut off entirely," says Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...