Word: spirit
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...deal,” Cutler said. “He has always been an enormously inventive and perceptive teacher,” said Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Studies, a speaker at the celebration. “But he has never abandoned...his spirit of festivity.” Legend has it that the Hollis Professor of Divinity holds the privileged right to graze his cows—a perk that first came to Cox’s attention when he assumed the post in 2002, and later became the inspiration for yesterday’s ceremony...
...bottom line: never fear, soon the Yard will go back to smelling the way it always does—that rare combination of naiveté, pretension, and the collegiate spirit...
...that those two things contradict each other. I think that's exactly what brought us back from that tragedy. That's the source of our resilience, is that even in the darkest of times we're able to pull together and help each other. And that should be the spirit that infuses that...
...child or visiting seniors in a nursing home that is irreplaceable. It not only is good for the person getting the service; it's good for the person who's giving the service. And there's nothing new about that. That's - that is something elemental about the human spirit is that...
...customs and fantastical tales he's encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells us, "he is bound to suffer disaster...