Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues actually once believed LBJ to be "Best for the USA," we cannot condemn for lack of foresight; poor judgment, perhaps. But now that they have finally awakened to the ugly reality their own party flung on us all, we must forget the past and act in a spirit of consensus. Jay B. Stephens '68 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republicans
...pieces of music composed in this century (completed in 1943). Its explicit text by Catullus (847-54 B.C.) is a delightfully, powerfully pagan ode to the joys and heartbreaks of love and lust. Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra and the Temple University Choirs understand and communicate the wild spirit of the piece...
...yearly coverage of sports from 140 to 325 hours and its sports-programming revenues from $2.5 million to $65 million. As executive producer of the Wide World of Sports, which has telecast 90 different sports events in 31 countries, he goes to uncommon lengths "to capture the spirit of the place, the people and the event." In 1965, when a team of mountain climbers scaled the Matterhorn to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ascent, they were greeted on top by an ABC camera team that had climbed up the day before to film the event...
Unfettered by a narrow churchly agenda, delegates to the lay congress were in a mood to tackle more down-to-earth problems. The spirit of the meeting was set by the keynote address of Steering Committee Secretary Dr. Thorn Kerstiens. "We must put questions to the theologians which often coincide with those put by men who are not Christians," he said. "Modern man wants to see things from the viewpoint of his daily existence." As an example, Kerstiens asked delegates to consider such questions as, "What should be our attitude towards revolutionary movements?", and "Is racial discrimination...
...second half of the 19th century in the U.S. The theme was full of pay dirt for the propagandist, but Josephson, one of the few radicals who had any notion of how American business actually worked, wrote with authority. Infidel in the Temple is an attempt to evoke the spirit of the Depression years, but the effect is only that of an endless documentary spliced from old newsreels, with a commentary by the author explaining that he was there...