Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think Adams's spirit has changed slightly," Cohen said. "We can let loose...
Several members of the committee referred to Adam's traditional spirit of tolerance...
...that moment, right there, seemed to capture the spirit of the afternoon. Accentuate the positives. Work around the potential negatives. And always, always remember the kids...
...even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States said, "I had the absolutely incorrect impression that Jonassaint was a figurehead." If Jonassaint is sanitized, indeed laureled...
Such a conversation could have been reality, but then the '60s vision met the 1990s. There are more people in the world now, so everyone wants their space. It was nobody's fault, really. The spirit of separatism just kind of rose up and took over, and soon roughly 90 faculty members in the humanities were lobbying a professional consultant hired by the administration (after all, who has time anymore to talk directly to the people who work for you?) for bigger offices...