Word: spirit
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Although AAAAS's goals were unique, they were influenced by the mood of the country and the spirit of activism at Harvard. In fact, most of AAAAS's leaders were extremely involved in the Harvard community...
...Crimson in 1969 was very good in many respects," he says. "The impetus [for founding the Independent] was to try to breathe some air into the system and to invigorate a spirit of debate...
Rivers' fighting spirit is still felt at the College. Since his graduation, he has been an adviser to student activists and something of a gadfly whenever he feels that Harvard is not moving fast enough to improve race relations...
...tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
...have also sought refuge in alcohol or drugs. But not everyone who shared Puller's experience of life after near death followed the same path. Senator Bob Kerrey, who lived in a ward with Puller during rehabilitation in Philadelphia, lost part of a leg in Vietnam but maintained his spirit. A grieving Kerrey said of his dead friend, "I don't think he died a casualty of something that he did in Vietnam, but I do think he died a casualty of the loneliness that he felt from being set apart...