Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message was delivered at a carefully planned session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow at which Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rejected the spirit of peaceful compromise so widely advertised at Geneva last July. Khrushchev's attack on the U.S. and President Eisenhower was stronger than anything heard in the U.S.S.R. since the days of Dictator Stalin. Both Bulganin's and Khrushchev's speeches had warlike overtones, Bulganin speaking of the recent development of "intercontinental" rockets and Khru shchev virtually threatening the West with the new Soviet H-bomb...
...Secretary of State Dulles had sent Christmas messages to European satellite countries, expressing U.S. faith in their eventual liberation. Huffed Khrushchev: "The American authors of these far from religious 'Christmas' messages [are] desirous of changing the order of things. This in no way accords with the spirit of Geneva and is crude interference in the internal affairs of free and sovereign states...
...session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just like the tree-all root...
...shawls, before a big sign reading, GOD is LOVE. Wearing a platinum mink cape, Rhoda Boggs (Lily, the strawberry woman, in the show) sang Sweet Little Jesus Boy. Then, with deep religious feeling, the Negroes sang Christmas carols (Joy to the World) and spirituals (Every Time I Feel the Spirit). By the time they left, many of the Russians were weeping openly. Some said to Moses LaMarr, "God bless you. Merry Christmas. We love you." Not understanding a word, LaMarr solemnly replied, "The same...
February. An Eliot House janitor will win the $64,000 Question. His topic will be "The Spirit of Ancient Athens." A Cambridge commission for urban renewal will propose a modernization of Harvard's campus. President Pusey will counter by saying, "Harvard has no campus." Fire Chief Kilfoyle will drive the hook and ladder to Miami for repairs...