Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summons to reflect on the meaning of existence. No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does not and never did exist? Nietzsche's thesis...
...Johannine Spirit. Yet, along with the new atheism has come a new reformation The open-window spirit of Pope John XXIII and Vatican II have re vitalized the Roman Catholic Church...
...progress in South Viet Nam-that has most deeply stirred the Vice President's imagination and energies. Kneading the air with freckled hands, arching his circumflex eyebrows and managing to speak about twice as fast as any Teletype can relay his words, he declares: "There is a new spirit there, because we have not only said that we wish to defeat aggression, but we wish to defeat social misery, and here is where we all come in. We are seeking to help build with the South Vietnamese a whole new society...
Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook spends 31 hours putting on his Mark Twain makeup, but he has spent 13 years getting into Mark Twain's psyche. What began as an extraordinary physical likeness has become a communion of spirit, a marriage of two minds, a shared inner mirth at man's foibles that approaches philosophy...
...just as a place to live. By stressing dialogue among students and between students and faculty, he has created a totally new atmosphere." Yet the newness, paradoxically, is also a return to tradition. For in demonstrating the educational potential of the House system, he has moved toward recapturing the spirit in which the Houses were founded...