Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the final chorus the highlight here. "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" closes out the album; as Ory exhibits a lightness that seems incredible after his happy shouting phrases on the other sides, and guitarist Scott contributes a shouting, pushing vocal that shows a fine scorn for the loving spirit of his lyrics...
Managerial personnel, Rakosi said, "do not have sufficient determination to create the necessary discipline with iron hands . . . They try to avoid the thankless duty of disciplining their workers and instead seek to establish a sort of 'good fellow' spirit by which they ensure their own popularity." From now on, he concluded, "managers and foremen who tolerate bad work, bad discipline and laziness . . . will be relentlessly eliminated...
...East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an anchor for his international conquests, Hideyoshi chose Osaka, built a castle there in the latter part of the 16th Century. Hideyoshi and Osaka got along fine, and ever since then Osaka's merchants have done their best to keep alive his spirit. They gambled when the gambling was good, hedged only when they had to. They became and remain to this day the financial lords of Japan...
...Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean considers the terrors of everyday 20th Century life...
...last month, converts from the surrounding countryside were streaming into the rickety, broken-down hut which Nagumo used as his headquarters, to be comforted by Nagumo's deity, "The August Inside of Heaven Owner God." To demonstrate their true faith, the converts always laughed when they prayed. "The spirit of the smile," glowed Nagumo, "must linger in everything...