Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt lays great store by what he calls "the spirit of Warm Springs." This spirit is a very tangible, carefully cultivated attitude of cheerfulness, confidence, determination. It is designed to fortify the resort's paralysis patients, put heart into their fight for recovery. When he goes to Warm Springs, Franklin Roosevelt steeps himself in this spirit quite as purposefully as he exercises in its waters. Easter afternoon, when he went to the train which was to take him back to Washington after a ten-day rest, his smile and bearing clearly reflected the spirit of Warm Springs...
...Ruthie an' Winfiel'", and 'teenish Al, and Rose-of-Sharon and husband Connie, and twentyish Tom and Noah; then it goes through Ma, Pa, and Uncle John to Granma and Granpa. They are individuals, but only in an emotional way; their natures are interesting for their hearts and their spirit, not their minds...
...spirit of these migrants that composes the theme of the story. Steinbeck has made them real, round, solid characters. Brought up on selfreliance, now they come into conflict with things that are beyond them. The story sprouts from this base; as conditions grow worse, the spirit grows stronger. There is no resolution to the problem in the book though with no solution in sight, it ends on a note of trust in their integrity. The author has let actions speak for the morale of the people, with only occasional direct expressions of their philosophy, and this is as it should...
...forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...
...thoroughly democratic spirit in which suggestions rule the House committee, and an excellent dining room presided over by Mrs. DePinta, who knows everybody's name by the end of the first month, are the most distinctive characteristics of Winthrop House...