Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRITISH MUSEUM IS FALLING DOWN, by David Lodge. This young British novelist's antic spirit needs leashing, but readers may enjoy the wild ride past several vulnerable institutions, among them the Roman Catholic Church and the airless world of scholarship...
Quid pro Nil. It was difficult not to conclude that Hanoi's aim is to induce Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that...
...same reform spirit is spreading to other areas. The Netherlands has raised its scientific-research budget by 45% over the past two years. British industry has just rented a "brain train" to tour university cities and woo reluctant engineering and science graduates. There is serious talk about untangling Europe's thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation...
Indian art is designed to inspire spiritual freedom and self-realization. It attempts to release the spirit from the individual ego in order to entirely become one with the divine nature of the Self; to attain awareness of the total unity of being. The aesthetic experience in Indian art occurs when the self perceives the Self. Hence Indian art, properly experienced, is meant to be a kind of divine inspiration and expression of a higher understanding
...remain faithful to the very spirit of ecumenism, we must go down to the very depths of our own traditions and beliefs, for only in the very depths will we meet one another," he said...