Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant describes the "comprehensive" high school as a school that provides academic and vocational opportunity for all the youths in a given locality while at the same time endeavoring "to create an atmosphere in which respect between different groups is engendered and the spirit of democratic living fostered." He calls it an American invention...
...perverse impulses of the human spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...
Walt R. Rostow, professor of Economic History at M.I.T., and Visiting Lecturer Barbara Ward last night called for the creative and unifying spirit in government that a University education can produce...
...reproduce the sound of his orchestra as he remembered it), Walter Toscanini built a sound studio in the billiard room in the basement of Toscanini's house in Riverdale (the Upper Bronx), piped tape-recorded music up to a giant speaker in the living room. When the spirit moved him, the old man sat in the living room listening to and judging the full-volume thunder of his orchestra. If a note or a phrase displeased him, he moved his head almost imperceptibly from side to side, frequently erupted into red-faced tirades if the music continued...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...