Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...access to the American tactical nuclear warheads in West Germany, which France now shares under the NATO "two-key" system. For another, it would enable France to keep troops in Germany, which, in French minds at least, serves to dampen the resurgence of their old enemy's aggressive spirit. Whether De Gaulle will be impressed by those considerations remains to be seen. Despite his vocal "suspicion" of American intentions in Europe, he is nonetheless counting on the U.S. to shield France from aggression no matter how much mischief he stirs up. He admitted as much in a recent meeting...
...said San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who has the habit of unconventional utterance. While he was speaking at the University of California at Berkeley, someone inevitably brought up the subject of San Francisco's famed topless dancers. Preached Pike, in the spirit of the Song of Songs: "We must always be in a position of thanksgiving to God for the beauties of his handiwork...
...antique drafted by Alexander Hamilton in 1787, it was the only U.S. divorce law that parted spouses solely for adultery, a rule that spawned fraud and collusion on a colossal scale. What finally killed the law, said one legislator, was "a man named John-Pope John." With the reforming spirit of Vatican II blowing strong, New York's Roman Catholic bishops toned down their opposition to change, and the legislators scrambled into action...
...Beat Generation of writing is forget it. Some curly new hair is coming up in Beardsville. The new boys still haven't found a name-The Camp Crowd? The Hallucinogeneration?-but they have brattishly proclaimed their principal preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions...
Although our students had been serious before, a new spirit emerged from the new school. No longer was the school looked on as a waiting room for scholarships to the U.S. and East Europe. Now it was permanent--a real school. The students worked harder and the teachers worked more effectively...