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Word: spirit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since some students are convinced they are deceived and exploited, they feel and kinship for others who are similarly deceived and exploited. "The back-to-the-people spirit is at once the most distinctive, noblest and self-destructive trait within student movements." All student activism requires this streak of populism and companionship with the masses...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Conflict of Generations | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

...Jubilee has its problems too. Its public cannot be convinced by an overwhelming deluge of hard sell publicity or by vociferous shrieks espousing school spirit and the financial welfare of the class. Indeed, some feel the freshmen could save themselves a great deal of money and a lot of work if this activity were eliminated completely. Yet the venerable Jubilee and its undaunted committee perpetually endure...

Author: By Peter J. Bernbaum, | Title: The Glorious Story of Jubilee: Why You Want to Go This Year | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...weekend is more than just the largest single social event which is coordinated among undergraduates, and its spirit encompases more than just a compendium of specially scheduled events. It is the impromptu cocktail parties scheduled in the yard during hours of extended parietals. It is actually being at the inevitable, notorious events which accompany the weekend. It's over 1000 people forgetting papers, exam pressures, and jobs. It's a whole class celebrating a spring ritual and soaking up the spontaneous merriment of each moment. The augment this, there are always the normal attractions of Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard...

Author: By Peter J. Bernbaum, | Title: The Glorious Story of Jubilee: Why You Want to Go This Year | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...Corporation said yesterday that it is "fully committed to carrying out in both letter and spirit" the Faculty's resolution to deny ROTC any special extra-curricular privileges...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Corporation Approves Of Faculty Resolution In 'Letter and Spirit' | 4/29/1969 | See Source »

...principality. Brought up as a foundling, he becomes an unsettling, sinister figure. Rootless and rich, he is odd in some dreadful way that puts him outside humanity. A haunted, solitary drunk, he seems to epitomize the danger and disorder that lurk in self-preoccupation. A pet cat, or familiar spirit, called Schwartz, suggests that Hammer may be some sort of warlock. But in any case, Hammer sows lechery and malevolence wherever he goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Portable Abyss | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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