Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing role that laymen now play in the administration of many Catholic universities, but also the postconciliar emphasis on their position in the church. For many schools, a contributing factor is a Maryland court decision last year declaring unconstitutional state aid to colleges that are totally religious in spirit and atmosphere. Fordham's President Father Leo McLaughlin admitted as much last week. "In the not too distant future," he said, "the Supreme Court will have to consider the question raised by the Maryland court, and, if that principle is upheld, changes will have to be made within the structure...
...uniform and begins to help clean the latrine. The colonel is merely conforming to the "Officers to the Ranks" movement. When this program began in 1959, officers were expected 'to spend a month of every year living like privates. The officers and enlisted men were encouraged to recapture the spirit of the revolutionary days, when soldiers fought in small units and close contact and exchange of ideas between men of all ranks was common...
...This spirit is conveyed in other ways. In the evenings, officers often come into the barracks to talk about the revolutionary days. Their stories, like the articles in the army newspaper--The "Liberation News"--often mention Lin, who is generally conceded by everyone (including the Chinese Nationalists) to be the greatest strategist of the Civil War. But these stories are also flavored with examples of the old Red Army's devotion to their cause, the bestiality of the Kuomintang and their American allies, and the kindness of the Communist soldiers...
...Army. A batch of secret army papers smuggled to the U.S. in 1961 contains Mao's terse approval of instructions Lin gave regularly to army cadres. If Mao and Lin weren't directly collaborating on the transformation of the Army, Mao at least knew he had a kindred spirit in Lin. The Defense Minister could be trusted, Mao apparently thought, to build the organization that would stand by Maoist principles in an emergency...
Then turn the globe and look at Asia. If we had made no commitments and offered no assistance, what kind of Asia would there now be? Would there be a confident and vital South Korea? A prosperous and peaceful Japan? Would there be the new spirit of regional cooperation and forward movement now developing throughout Asia...