Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nineteenth century drew to its end, the spirit of scientific research fostered by the Lawrence Scientific School had so imbued itself in Harvard life that it was no longer necessary to attend the Scientific School in order to become a scientist, for the University offered other training for astronomers, chemists biologists, and the like...
Stressing that the European Recovery Program must be approached in a "positive spirit," the six-point manifesto goes on to cite the tenets of "reconstruction not relief," "no political conditions," "use of U.N. facilities," "non-partisan support," and "a two-way venture with the Continent...
...takes a lot of integrity and a lot of finely disciplined inventiveness to understand and respect the spirit of a true story, to stay absolutely faithful to it, and to give it shape and edge as drama and as popular entertainment. The makers of Northside had all that it takes and then some. Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. The sound track, as cleanly intelligent as the camera work, deserves a special Oscar: except in the dives, where instrumental music is proper, practically...
...takes so little to be happy. . . . Now all I would wish, in this winter of the spirit, is to fall asleep and wake up in a luxury of light and warmth; not to have every morsel of coal dragged unwillingly from the bowels of the coal mine; not to have all food weighed and balanced up in calories, with so many million deaths anticipated, calmly, from cold and starvation; but to pass on to the light and warmth of life...
...Hunters and the Hunted is a quiet book of comment on art and literature and history and birds-on whatever comes to Sacheverell Sitwell's well-stocked mind, in this winter of the spirit, that summons up recollections of richer creative times. It is an intellectual banquet like one of those he describes at the court of Constantine, where the dessert was brought in three chariots and raised to the table by ropes which descended from a ceiling of golden foliage...