Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before for a brief period when, as a result of crossed political signals, he thought he might run for Mayor in place of bumbling John Patrick O'Brien (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). This time what his welcomers lacked in public prestige they made up for in warmth of spirit, and their greeting went straight to sentimental Jimmy Walker's none too robust heart. "I'm happy but abashed," he said chokingly "I'm happy but humiliated. . . . I love every cobblestone in the City of New York. I did my best, but now I am through, confident...
...Free speech was regarded as an axiom of democracy, and the guardian of liberty. But the Great War brought back that fierce spirit of intolerance that Thomas Jefferson had hoped to bury forever. It took the form of demands for the dismissal of certain professors, either because they had the misfortune to be Germans, or because they spoke or wrote in a manner to alarm property. And these demands--to their shame let it be said--came most sharply from our own alumni; from men who had benefitted from the very freedom that they sought to restrain...
...there is the other side, the side with which the Elizabethans dealt, the spirit exemplified in him who would "take all nature to be his province." We must certainly know the Morphology of Shoe-laces between 1421 and 1423; scholars are perfectly correct in spending years of research on Shelley's use of the word "tig"; the world must have extrapulation, interpolation, annotation, paraphrasion, and prolocution. But also let's have big ideas; great generalities; tentative conclusions for next generations to worry about...
...University should cease trying to tutor everyone on the theory, however laudable, that the Tutorial System is per se a good thing. It is, an excellent thing -- but only for those who take it in the spirit in which it is given. Others have no place in it, and should be separated from it before more money is wasted on them...
...Constitution is neither a holy spirit of Americanism nor a sacred Ark of the Covenant. It represents a statement of fundamental principles of government which are to be applied by an agency of the government, the Supreme Court, to the changing conditions of American social and economic life. Thus, intelligent opposition to the current administration should be based on a critical examination of specific issues in the light of relative constitutional principles. Attempts to dramatize the Constitution merely cloud the fundamental issues at stake and substitute for an intellectual approach to the problem, the impassioned appeal of the demagogue...