Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even D. H. Lawrence favored rigorous censorship of smut. "You can recognize it," he wrote, "by the insult it offers, invariably, to sex, and to the human spirit . . . The insult to the human body, the insult to a vital human relationship!" On that point, both the author of Lady Chatterley and Evangelist Billy Graham would be in wholehearted agreement...
Like Nietzsche, he regards as crippling devices all faiths that encourage human adjustment to mortality by separating the indestructible spirit from the bone and gristle of being. Such factors, he believes, separate man from natural pride in his fleshly individuality, humbling him and cutting him off from his true spiritual condition-what Harrington calls a "state of Permanent Revolution against Imaginary Gods." The Devil, it follows, far from being the embodiment of evil, is man's healthiest prototypical projection of his own radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions...
...Scarecrow came to her funeral; so did Andy Hardy. So, in spirit, did the countless legions of Judy Garland's fans, 21,000 of whom appeared in per son and jammed the streets of Manhattan's Upper East Side last week to file past the bier where her body, dressed in the ankle-length gown she had worn at her fifth wedding, lay in state. Many were moved to tears when a young girl from The Bronx began to play Judy's records on a battery-powered phonograph. Some, of course, came only out of curiosity. Others...
...jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond rallies and combat-volunteer recruitment drives...
Finally, Harvard and MIT should help to expand the non-university housing supply in Cambridge--not because they owe that to the City, and not in a spirit of largesse--but simply because they resources to do it that no one else in the City has, and a clear responsibility to use them. MIT has already begun that process, although many details of the proposal that has been announced must be clarified before the City can evaluate it and help to implement it. We hope, and expect that Harvard will reveal soon how it intends to participate...