Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation at Cambridge Welfare, particularly A.D.C., is a tragedy. The mute director of A.D.C. labored under the misconception that without official directive, and not being a physician, she could not discuss birth control. The welfare department has its own peculiar interpretation of the law which reads that the spirit of the law, though not the letter of the law, prohibits discussion of family planning. It was always legal and still is legal to discuss birth control and information verbally under the protection of free speech. The change of law in 1966 meant to the welfare department that medical bills from...
...opportunism" in entering the race, his hippie hair, his pro-civil rights proclivities, his vendetta against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, his indentureship in the '50s under Joe McCarthy and myriad unspecified acts of vindictiveness, Kennedy seems to many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching her voting registration to Democrat so that she could vote against Bobby: "He is dogmatic, ruthless, dangerous, and as phony as an $18 bill...
...thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly; in this spirit the youth of Paris plays at planning revolution. Or so it appears in this porous satire by protean Director Jean-Luc Godard (TIME...
...worked out that his performance overrides most doubts as to its legitimacy in terms of the play. As the subsidiary love interests, Lorenzo and Jessica, Pope Brock and Phyllis Ward create some of the production's finest moments. The scene in which Jessica escapes with her lover evokes a spirit of tender innocence that would find a nice home in any Romeo and Juliet...
When the Harvard Glee Club puts together a concert, it builds on a rock-solid foundation--tradition. Since the turn of the century when it was billed as America's leading male chorus, its footing has slipped a little, but it has become a symbol of undergraduate spirit as well as the standard bearer of varsity choral singing. Last Friday evening's concert glowed all over with a warm sense of nostalgia and not infrequently caught fire with the best that 100 years of singing has to offer...