Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school bill. But generally the flaw is in attitude. This attitude is what makes either of the two possibilities of another Republican administration distasteful. Neither an Eisenhower nor a Nixon-turned-Eisenhower (which is the best that can be hoped for) is adequate. For leadership by team spirit alone is not enough, either in the nation or in the world...
...quietly, avoiding politics. His appointment was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else in Hungary. Said a Hungarian: "He comes as close as anyone we know to being an anti-Communist." The question was, had nine years of prison broken the 49-year-old Kovacs' spirit...
After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. In Poland, Communist Wladyslaw Gomulka had won a palace revolution by invoking the spirit of his people. In Hungary it was the people themselves who spoke. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
Today Christian faces Moslem in a new sort of encounter. From Marrakech to Djakarta, the nations of Islam's teeming household (close to 322 million members) are bursting with newly won freedom and touched with the spirit of change. For the first time, Christian and Moslem face each other on equal ground and with mutual need. It is high time, says Author Cragg, for Christians to re-examine their relationship with the children of the Prophet...