Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seeking major change in the spirit of Selma in 1967 is unusual in a city ripe for a Watts-like episode. It is a tribute to the moral integrity of Milwaukee's Negro youth and their advisers that they are marching. Your comments reflect upon a man who has done more to promote peaceful change in Milwaukee than any other individual...
...months of bombing by the U.S. has not succeeded in breaking North Viet Nam's spirit, it has certainly taken an enormous toll of its national substance. Despite the dispute in the U.S. over extending the range of targets, there are so few major ones yet unbombed that U.S. pilots spend most of their time returning to plaster the same old places time and again. Last week the U.S. not only further shrunk the list of off-limit targets but employed a new aerial bombing strategy that threatens to paralyze completely North Viet Nam's transportation and supply...
...back to the U.S., and particularly to the West Coast (some San Franciscans are calling their city the Liverpool of the U.S.). There, as elsewhere in the States, rock is currently in the midst of a huge syncretic surge toward a new idiom-and the Beatles' wildly eclectic spirit hovers over it all. As the Lovin' Spoonful's songwriter, John Sebastian, says: "Here we are in the middle of the mulch...
Although undertaken in a spirit of Christian altruism, church-run relief services have not escaped criticism. Some American Catholic critics of the war were shocked to discover that CRS has for two years been helping distribute U.S. surplus food to families of South Viet Nam's 700,000-member local militia, at the request of General William Westmoreland. Defending the arrangement, CRS officials pointed out that the low-paid militiamen are often away on duty and unable to provide sufficiently for their families. Because of the well-established Roman Catholic structure in Viet Nam, CRS is able to ensure...
...Germans who would be left unemployed by such moves, Morgenthau said: "Sure, it is a terrific problem. Let the Germans solve it. Why the hell should I worry about what happens to their people?" As a farmer, Morgenthau firmly believed in the bucolic virtues as renovators of the human spirit; hence, a Germany of hops growers would be a Germany of peaceful human beings...