Word: spirit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Others believe that care should be taken to avoid excessive encouragement of entrepreneurship on campus, arguing that it could potentially suppress the drive and spirit necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. “Is entrepreneurship something that you should shove down people’s throats? Should I have been pursued as a key future entrepreneur? No,” says Silverman. “That’s something that I had to look out for myself, I chose not to, until the time came along when I was more interested in that...
...drinking serves only anti-social ends: a collection of unconnected individuals, stumbling out crudely in search of a good time, each alone to enjoy his pleasure and his pain, as long as his own thirst for amusement has been slaked. The popular preference—a cheap and tasteless spirit like vodka, which lends its intoxicating power but not its taste to whatever accompaniment—is indicative. Alcohol has become a mere drug...
...spunk seems to have been lost in the four years since her last solo effort. She’s made the metamorphosis from her more raucous indie-folk inspired early albums to a more mature singer-songwriter niche, but it’s not clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying...
...It’s odd for something like this to hit so close to home,” said Felix M. Zhang ’11, CSA co-vice president. “Its kind of disconcerting and a little disappointing.” “In the spirit of President Obama’s speech about a post-racial society, it may be interesting for us to reflect on our own colleges like Harvard and Dartmouth,” he added...
...appears there are some out there who have yet to truly grasp the essence of the VOID. Worry not, we've only just begun. But for more insight, this trailer captures the spirit quite well...