Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made some progress, notably by putting the city's finances on a sounder basis, keeping the restive ghettos free of major riots, and reducing air pollution. Still, many of Lindsay's accom plishments have been in spirit rather than in substance...
Father Maitland's dilemma is intricately worked out like a fine, stout piece of convent lace. In the process, the author shows himself as a dealer in the comedy of the spirit far different from Graham Greene's celebrated psychodramas of doubt, doom and-damnation. His scenes are as funny as J. F. Powers', but without their cozy in-joke comicality. Keneally's humor is white, not black-a blessed relief. His book is infused with a pawky clerical awareness that human life, though sometimes capable of holiness, is more often merely funny. Thus perceptively armed...
...simply obtaining an outstanding liberal education at a well-situated college, look closely at Princeton." If the name you want is Harvard, "the essence of its life provides a challenge and experience unmatched at any American university." That is, of course, unless you are at Dartmouth where team spirit "helps provide identity and direction, it sharpens challenges, helps make life exciting." And on and on. The descriptions of each of the eight Ivy schools have as much zest as a half-time show on the College Bowl...
...newspaper reported on August 4 of last year that this Mr. Nguyen dang Trung, who was president of the Saigon Student Union, was sentenced in absentia to ten years of hard labor because the Saigon Student Union had published a newspaper that favored peace and therefore "weakened the anticommunist spirit of the army and the people." Other sources close to Mr. Trung say that he may have been done away with. Tin Toung, a Buddhist magazine, in its September, 1968 issue reported that one of Mr. Trung's friends, Mr. Tran quoc Chuong, was tied up by three strangers...
Both Kenneil and Rafferty said that the police tried at first to keep the girls from getting dressed, to have evidence that they were nude. "The police seemed upset about the whole thing, but hen they got into the spirit of it," one of the girls said. "Hamilton is a pretty sleepy town," she added...