Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furious activity when it numbered men like Virgil Thomson '22 and Leonard Bernstein '39 in its midst and at other times lapsing into sociable lethargy. For a while many of the meetings were held in the home of Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music and then moving spirit of the club...
...settlement reached by the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee and the management of the Club 100 depends for its effectiveness as an anti-discriminatory device upon the good intention of the club management to observe the spirit of the agreement. For within the actual wording of the document there are abundant loopholes which will allow the Club 100 to continue its policy of operating ostensibly as a private club with restricted membership but actually admitting anyone of Caucasion descent...
However, judgment should be withheld until time has given the management opportunity to prove its good faith. If it does carry out the highest meaning of the spirit of the agreement, the management of the Club 100 merits commendation for its change of policy, even though the change was the result of pressure whose necessity was deplored even by those who supported it most strongly...
...religious side there is constant pressure to keep the spiritual free from what is felt to be the contamination of the material world, which is regarded as in some way gross and unworthy. . . . But this results ... in leaving the physical to go its own way unchecked by the spirit, so that the vaunted spiritual exaltation has its counterpart in bodily immorality. In either case the unity of man's life is broken; the material world, with all man's economic activity, becomes a happy hunting ground for uncurbed acquisitiveness, and religion becomes a refined occupation for the leisure...
...daily struggle of his spirit bred a daily exaltation, and common things assumed great meaning. Water, when he bathed his face or drank at the well, was extraordinary for its wetness and coldness; food, partaken of at his own board or in the field; the strength of his white mare that bore him up so loyally; the darkness of the night sky that brought him rest-these things were all extraordinary for themselves and, more so, for the greatness of the creation behind them. So that he was attended in those autumn days, not only by the demons...