Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
Peckerwood Mystics. These tiny congregations represent obscure sects with a fertile confusion of names-the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association, Pillar of Fire, Church of Daniel's Band, etc. Observers classify them in three main types, often overlapping: 1) Pentecostal, teaching that the Holy Spirit floods the believer in his ecstasy and that the Lord speaks to and through him; 2) Holiness, believing that absolute purity is possible for the Saved upon earth, and distinguishing sharply between the small sect of the Saved and the world (Babylon); 3) Millenarian, looking for the imminent Second Coming...
...nature of the topics under investigation, clever management and adroit manipulation can all too easily capture the affair for one faction or another. It is in a hopeful if not glowing attitude that the College must accept the Conference. But caution, which is vital, need not develop into a spirit of cynicism and fear that would prevent acceptance of the proposal, for whatever the result, it is incumbent on Harvard students to be represented in the discussions...
...thousand years ago man's manner of dying was profoundly changed by the greatest of valedictories: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit...
...Under the pressure of materialism and advertising and salesmanship, America's funerals have, within the past fifty years, degenerated into a pagan preoccupation with vulgar display and pagan concern for the body, to the almost total neglect of the spirit...