Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spirit of the Arts. In the Salle Victor Hugo four armchairs and 16 straight chairs were set round the circular, greenclothed table. The ceiling overhead was covered with a painting of a winged nude youth, the Spirit of the Arts, who gazed benevolently on sundry French peasants and workers tilling fields, building houses, digging holes and filling them up again. "Any time the Ministers think things are going badly," said the Luxembourg's curator, "all they need to do is lean back and gaze at the ceiling and realize things could be worse...
...main purpose of out intramural programs this spring," said Samborski, "is to try and work up some spirit in the Houses...
Under his well-cultivated Eton and Cambridge charm, Keynes had the roving, many-sided spirit of an Elizabethan. His interests ranged from banking to the Bloomsbury artistic set, his hobbies from bibliography to the ballet. But the world would remember him as an economist with ideas as seminal as Adam Smith...
...were to hear that with the resurrection of Christ on the first Easter Day the full freedom of the human soul was finally attained, and that to a believer who accepts Good Friday and Easter Day in a spirit of true faith and penitence there is made available a source of spiritual strength which, however often he may fall, will raise him up again and that will finally in the depths of eternity bring him to that perfection that was in the beginning designed...
Nude in Manhattan. Stieglitz played host to a reckless, determined band. In 1913, the modernists captured Manhattan's huge 69th Regiment Armory, stocked it with some 1,600 examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...