Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Lowell House investigators might have found to criticize had they been more single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over...
Littler than Least. Vienna in the late spring of 1946 was a broken city. The baroque grandeur of its stone merely served as a backdrop for uncleared rubble, and the remnants of its once-blithe spirit were merely counterpoints to present hopelessness. Within the brief flash of 30 years, Vienna had in turn been the gay and gilded center of an empire, the outsized capital of a bankrupt rump republic, a subordinate, provincial town in Nazi Germany, and the cringing wartime scene of bombings, street fighting, burning, looting...
Last week, above the clamor of hunger and the echoes of two wars, Europe's people still heard the voice of the spirit that for 2,000 years had made Christendom, for all its failures and struggles, the greatest of human communities. In numbers unprecedented before fascism and war closed over them, the people of Europe expressed a choice by ballot as to how they should order their lives: whether in concert with the principles on which Europe had been built, or the new principles stemming from man's relation with things rather than his relation with...
...conditions under which they lived. But Ortega-who is paradoxically a hater of the law and of institutions, which he accepts only because he considers them "realities"-insists that oppression can be carried to great lengths before it becomes as destructive and perilous to the life and spirit of man as "the bloody, disgusting zone of revolution." In the strongest, least ambiguous sentences of his book, he upholds the Roman thesis that national unity must rest on the inescapable "reality" of society's division into "the rich and the poor, the illustrious and the nameless, the creative...
...What we do in the world toward a solution of the old but now terribly urgent problems," Sheeks concluded, "will not prove the moral superiority of our generation; but it will demonstrate that we posess the requisite reforming energy and spirit...