Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kratz and Sutter asserted that the atomic bomb threatens the complete destruction of civilization. Therefore, they argued, world government which was always desirable is now imperative. They insisted that a sufficient spirit of world community exists to sustain "a comprehensive binding system of order...
What is the aim to be sought in creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek...
Jordan is pleased with his term's "good, competitive spirit" and predicted: "The type of competition we face will determine the team's success...
...speaker attributed prevalent materialism to the pioneer spirit in American life. Harvard men were not the only ones to be singled out for attack...
...score is not particularly original or inspired, but it is highly tuneful and rhythmic--the kind of thing you whistle for weeks after you've heard it. And after a few precarious measures at the very beginning of the show, the orchestra, under Goldovsky's direction, played with spirit...