Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shipping you to Green Bay." Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit of the people who shovel the snow out of the stadium for free...
Invoking the legacies of Aristotle and Shakespeare, Lee implored students to work in a bipartisan spirit. "Our philosophy is that we have faith.... It's the hope that we may, hopefully, inspire future statesmen to greatness and create an electorate that can and does reward such greatness...
...mixes folky acoustic-guitar riffs with atmospheric lyrics and hip-hop samples and beats. One song, the hard-driving Devils Haircut, attacks America's culture of physical vanity as suffocating and inescapable; another, the smooth Where It's At, pays tribute to rap's roots by praising its resourceful spirit...
BOOKS . . . THE GOOD BOOK: Eighty-one pages into 'THE GOOD Book' (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence 'based on biblical principles (although) not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice.' Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy...
...White House wants to continue in the spirit of cooperation with the Republican Congress which brought about welfare and health insurance reform last summer...