Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when everyone was feeling sorry for his position, Truman's resurgent spirit was preparing for a revolution. Utilizing his wit and his statesmanship, he contrived to make the bellicose Congress pass several major bills. As a matter of fact, Truman embarked on an impressive agenda during this period, producing such landmark policy achievements as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan...
Described by Phillips as "a weekend of activism" the Washington event will also include the unveiling of the Clothesline Project--a tribute in the spirit of the AIDS Quilt in which, according to NOW, "rows of tee shirts commemorate or memorialize real women who have been battered, raped, assaulted or murdered...
...fashioned physician's tool. As his jottings mount up, Hullah notes to himself, "I really must put on the brakes or this Case Book, which I in-tend only as an aide-mamoire, will turn into one of those German Bildungsromanen, about the growth of a human spirit...
...Smokey Joe's Cafe. Whether or not they realized it, Leiber and Stoller were accomplishing in the '50s what Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein did in the '20s: translating the black music of church halls and barrooms into sophisticated songs that were at once true to the original spirit and acceptable to a mainstream audience. For L&S, that acceptability was a fluky byproduct of their urge to write rhythm and blues for the "race music" market. They didn't need to dilute their material for white listeners: the mainstream diverted itself to reach their fertile backwater...
...still see it--and, on Made in England, hear it. The album is a declaration of renewal from an old master who will always have a lot of the kid in him. "Maybe I can't recapture that old energy," he says. "But I can recapture the spirit of that energy. I have a lot left in me. Rubinstein was playing brilliantly at 80; Picasso didn't stop. Why should...