Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting into the spirit, Columnist Art Buchwald recorded several graffiti from Washington: "Governor Romney-Would you buy a new car from this man?" "Adam Clayton Powell uses Man-Tan." "George Wallace uses hair straightener." "Walter Lippmann-God is not dead. He is alive and appearing twice a week in the Washington Post...
...unity than the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." In truth it is precisely "the intrinsic drama and importance of a challenge on the presidential level" which can best foster "the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." The Wallace campaign, though forged in the same spirit of ostensible unity that pervades the Levinson-Kearns article, contributed to the collapse of the left in the '40's as a potent political force. Maybe it contributed as well to the rise of McCarthyism...
When the city of Nottingham financed a new arts center, "the arts became both popular and commercial," Ustinov said. "Increased interest on the part of the city seemed to infuse the arts with a new spirit, a reverence -- and the new facility was so popular that it did not ultimately cost the city more than 100 pounds a year...
...City Spirit...
Transcending Orthodoxy. Agnon's stubborn tenancy of the past sets formidable obstacles before the Gentile reader, or before anyone unfamiliar and unconcerned with Jewish tradition. His prose is majestically-at times annoyingly-Talmudic and is not easily translated from the Hebrew. Nor is his spirit, which is strongly flavored with Hasidism, an 18th century Jewish movement with strong emotional appeal to an oppressed and homeless people. Hasidism urged Jews to find joy in prayer and in their lot-an antidote to the despairs of exile. The existence of the State of Israel has helped dissipate the Hasidic appeal...