Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING LEAR. The consummate skill of Lee J. Cobb has elevated Lear's pain into a kingship of the spirit. The play is by far the best work the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered...
...tell you this: A revolutionary council never existed. What existed was the consciences of those people who undertook the responsibility of fulfilling the aims which induced the armed forces to lead the Greek people to revolution. As regards the democratic spirit in the Cabinet, you may collect information from any source, and if you find any one person who can tell you that an opinion or at titude has ever been imposed on the Cabinet, I permit you to call me publicly a dishonest...
...symbolic level, the bus is one of several manifestations of a current and growing spirit toward greater equality and togetherness between Harvard and Radcliffe, and it is on this level that those who do not ordinarily use the bus should support it. The on-campus Cliffe faces the continuous disadvantage of being nearly a mile away from the hub of campus life. The bus, as such, is a tangible attempt to bridge an unjust gap. As to the practicability of eliminating the inequity completely by instituting an all-day bus system, I know not; but certainly the night...
...which Turner was clearly one of the more outstanding members. Styron's character is not even well enough acquainted with the church's rhetoric to speak in the vernacular. He constantly refers to "visions" from Heaven. Modern black clergy would refer to the same Occurrences as visits from the Spirit or the Holy Ghost, and in the original confessions, Nat Turner uses the term Spirit throughout. Styron's hero preaches only once in the entire book and then very poorly. Black ministers preached as often as they could gather a crowd and they preached well, well by black standards...
...congregation, as witness the following quote from the original confessions: "Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow servants (not by means of conjuring and such like tricks--for to them I always spoke of such things with contempt), but by the communion of the Spirit whose revelations I often communicated to them and they believed and said my wisdom came from...