Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from now on. Their spirit is that of Leftist Spanish Novelist Ramon J. Sender, who stepped off the Queen Mary last week in Manhattan to announce: "Even if Franco wins, this war in Spain will last throughout the century...
...Catholicism" the Jesuit defined as an attitude, either of the "simple faithful or officials in public life," which consists in "an exaggerated carefulness of tactics and in a weak adaptation to established or foreseen facts. . . . The damage is greatest when constituted guardians of sacred ethics are seized by the spirit of that false Catholicism and bow down before the mighty and successful...
They talk of spirit more and show it less...
...neck out," asked for comment. It quickly appeared that there were at least a half-dozen psychologists in the room who still thought ESP might be a reality. These arose, one by one, to criticize the critic. One charged him with not approaching the problem in a neutral spirit, with making his own arbitrary definitions of Science and Truth...
...those who take the contemporary U. S. hard is young Manhattan Poet Muriel Rukeyser. Living in the nation's richest city, she is pinched by a sense of waste: a waste of spirit matching a material waste. To remedy the latter she counts on radical reform, if not revolution; to remedy the former she counts on mental and emotional continence. To help remedy both at once she writes poems that are at once radical and continent...