Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, this is Harvard, and I really should show a little more school spirit. I could put on shoulder guards and a helmet and pretend to be a member of the football team. On the other hand, with all that padding, someone's liable to mistake me for a resume at the Career Forum...
...vehement desire to feel wind in her hair. These women have their multi-faceted lives in perspective. Stone pays them respect for challenging, every time they take to the road, a stupid stereotype that has thoroughly permeated American culture. The movie aims to inspire, and inspire she does. The spirit of independence infused into the ride is both arresting and encouraging. Stone's wide shots of entire communities of bikers cruising through electric storms, or her moving clips of lone women serenely speeding down the highway made me and the 53-year-old next to me agree that when...
While he is juggling all that, Aristide must instill a spirit of realism among follows who have been swept up in the wild euphoria of his return. Their immense anticipation has generated hopelessly extravagant expectations -- so inflated, in fact, that the President risks failing before he is even given a chance. "People will hold him to unfairly high standards," says an American official. "There are exaggerated expectations of his -- and our -- ability to make fundamental changes...
...extreme positions have not paid, a sense of maturity." Although only 25 businessmen attended the service, there were indications that the monied community was also maturing in its outlook. By the reckoning of some business leaders, 20% of their colleagues are trying to reach out to Aristide in a spirit of reconciliation, including one or two of the seven families who make up the most entrenched elite...
...Brien's clean, incantatory prose always hovers on the edge of dream, and his specialty is that twilight zone of chimeras and fears and fantasies where nobody knows what's true and what is not. In Vietnam, of course, he locates the ultimate "spirit world," an eerie land of shadows where kids shot at phantoms, unable to tell friend from enemy, uncertain what they were fighting for. "The jungles stood dark and unyielding. The corpses gaped. The war itself was a mystery. Nobody knew what it was about, or why they were there, or who started...