Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous day calling for Harvard to divest from Shell Oil. This editorial mentioned a Council resolution, passed week and a half before, which calls for divestment as well. It is difficult to conceive that the Crimson did not consider this, the subject of their own staff editorial, relevant. Spirit Week and related events may not enhance our relevance, but they have consumed relatively little of the Council's time, energy, and money this semester...
What the talks are about, in large part, is poverty and the distortions it visits on the human spirit. You'll never find investment bankers bickering on Rolonda, or the host of Gabrielle recommending therapy to sobbing professors. With few exceptions the guests are drawn from trailer parks and tenements, from bleak streets and narrow, crowded rooms. Listen long enough, and you hear references to unpaid bills, to welfare, to 12-hour workdays and double shifts. And this is the real shame of the talks: that they take lives bent out of shape by poverty and hold them...
...particularly on Why Does It Hurt So Bad, with its masterly balance of pop zip and soulful melancholy. She was an enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female CDs as the pro-choice compilation Spirit of '73 (with Rosanne Cash and others), the MTV-sponsored Ain't Nothin' but a She Thing (with Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge) and the Christmas album Mother and Child (with Amy Grant and Martina McBride). "I wanted this to be an album of women with vocal distinction," says Houston...
...original 1977 demo tape, widely available on bootleg cassette, Lennon prefaces the tune by announcing, in the terse gutturals of a Brooklyn gangster, "Free. As a boid.'' That larkish spirit, absent in the new version, abounds on the two-CD album The Beatles Anthology (Apple/Capitol)--60 tracks of the group's compositions, cover recordings, outtakes, TV skits and reminiscences...
RABIN'S ASSASSINATION ONLY CONFIRMS how necessary his vision of peace is: too many years of war and terrorism have begun to poison Israel's national spirit. The nation must have peace in this generation, or hatred will destroy the country from within. EILEEN JOYCE Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...