Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fogg. Traces of solder mark every metal juncture on these pieces--even in the monumentally minimalistic "5 1/2" (1956). Stung by several critics' refusal to consider pieces created by industrial welding as art, Smith persistently defended his technique. The fancifully chaotic composition of "Bird" (1957) further evokes the spirit of an artist unwilling to bow to convention...
...really saddens us to see the Undergraduate Council huff and puff and blow its own house down. Ignored by practically every student with something better to do than fill out "Hello Day" slips, the council's recent foray into cheerleading--its so-called "Spirit Week"--was decidedly spirit-less. Is this where the council's vigorously-promised and much-touted issue of "relevance" has brought...
...might have been instructive for the council, before committing even more of our hard-earned money--the senseless student taxes heaped onto our term bills--to ask itself the simple question, "Spirit for what?" Should we have cheered spiritedly for our peppy student government? Should we have celebrated what a difference the Gala Ball has made in our lives? Should we have praised Harvard's new mascot, who looks like he just stepped out of the Trojan Horse? Should we have thrown a wild, week-long coronation of the council's new president, Robert M. Hyman...
...council should have realized that a silly project like "Spirit Week" would go over like a lead balloon on this campus. It should not have squandered our precious money and its puny reserve of political capital on something it might have anticipated would end up in its expansive warehouse of failures...
...question and answer segment which followed his speeds, Forbes reiterated the potential of a unified effort to both downsize government and unleash the American "can-do" spirit...