Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayne Morse's brilliance has not ripened into political wisdom; the spirit of compromise which responsibility Brings has not brushed him. He plays to the gallery, in which he is his most appreciative audience. But he plays without chicanery -and there are few Senators who can match him in drive and analytical power...
Since the record has sold almost as well as the book, it would be in the spirit of the enterprise to ask why Bridey Murphy has been such a success. Bernstein says his aim has been to prove his process--he calls it parapsychology research...
...Rebellion Tree stood for open defiance during the nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
...case, The Rebellion Tree spirit vanished forever from the College after the summer of 1834, eventually followed by its symbol as well. Pogo riots, football rallies, or Radcliffe raids are this generation's poor substitutes...
...impossible to continue the rebellion any longer. It was over. And with it, the Rebellion Tree--including the spirit for which it stood--passed into history...