Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic. The returning minister might have sensed it by the conspicuous absence among the crowds at the airport of any welcoming delegation from his Christian Democratic colleagues who had earlier muttered revolt against the Chancellor's highhandedness. For 48 hours it had seemed possible that this rebellious parliamentary spirit and the clamor of the press might become a force big enough to oust the 83-year-old Chancellor, clearing the way for Erhard...
Agreement comes from David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Scinces: "It is less fashionable to be cynical about religion," he said. "There is fun poked at the return to religion, but this is part escapism. Students are more open, less in the spirit of Mencken...
...Radcliffe girls did not play down the importance of everyday political questions, especially conworship and prayer and by a firmer cerning feminine equality. The spirit of Carrie Nation showed through in one girl's answer to the question, "Would you have any objections to the election as President of the United States of a Roman Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, an atheist or agnostic." She checked her objection to "an atheist" with this remark: "if he made a public point about it. Otherwise it's his or her own business...
...With what political party are you affiliated, either in spirit or in actual membership? 89 Republican; 93 Democratic; 118 None; 8 other...
...overwhelming majority of Harvard students who possess "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment," in President Pusey's Baccalaureate phrase,--and who profess a belief in what that word signifies--do so in a sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenistic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary...