Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, in four years or a hundred, could end all the evils and right all the wrongs that exist in the U.S. today. But a strong President, in touch with the needs of the country, can do much to relieve the anguish that now grips the American spirit. His leadership can bring new understanding between the races; his resolve, or lack of it, can set the tone that guides the public actions of his countrymen...
...fact that a great many legal issues must be resolved before underwater territory can be developed. Last week a special Government commission, headed by former M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, deplored the present haphazard approach to exploiting the oceans. One proposal of Stratton's group attempts to revive the spirit of homesteading. To encourage aquaculture, recreation projects and other uses of the sea, the commission recommended the leasing of submerged lands on easy terms to small investors. It proposes to call the arrangement "seasteading...
Vladimir Nabokov wrote a play called The Waltz Invention in 1938. More in the spirit of a dizzy gamble than of a calculated risk, the Hartford Stage Company has now given the drama its be lated professional world premiere. The play itself is deeply flawed, only fitfully flaring into zany, poignant and prophetic life. Though it will try some playgoers' patience and mystify others, admirers of Nabokov can scarcely fail to find it oddly fascinating...
...study its affairs, the securities that it owns in many countries are worth more than $2 billion. By best estimates, the Vatican holds 2% of the shares quoted on Italian stock exchanges. It is a stock holder in several Italian banks, including one called the Bank of the Holy Spirit...
...Benedikt's poems, the body is somehow in a contest with the spirit, while fact struggles with fancy. The result is a verbal battlefield strewn with strange, barely recognizable victims of war, delighting in their own demise...