Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit of individualism has recently affected the historic "non-merger merger" agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe, which joined the schools' admissions offices and gave Harvard responsibility for the education and daily life of women undergraduates...
...spirit of individualism has recently affected the historic "non-merger merger" agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe, which joined the schools' admissions offices and gave Harvard responsibility for the education and daily life of women undergraduates...
...company's founder, De Pree has little patience for by-the-book managers who ignore workers' needs for "spirit, excellence, beauty and joy." His criticism can be scathing: "Managers who have no beliefs but only understand methodology and quantification are modern-day eunuchs," he writes. "They can never engender competence or confidence...
...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...quickly became apparent back in the formative days that working up a repertoire of Irish music exclusively, even punked and pulverized, was a dead end. "It was patronizing," says Stacy simply. So instead of the raw Irish musical tradition itself, the band took the spirit of the tradition, which Stacy compares convincingly with rhythm and blues and reggae...