Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their friends. We defined middle age as ranging from 40 to 60. Although she barely qualifies, Actress Lauren Bacall, 41, struck the editors as a fitting (and certainly comely) personification of the Command Generation. Widowed, remarried, mother of three, heroine of several comebacks, she has a tested quality of spirit; she is game...
...much of this century, Spanish artists have felt that they, rather than their paintings, were up against a wall. The government discouraged modernity, and its practitioners were honored any place but at home. As a freer spirit began to emerge in many phases of Spanish life, modern art enjoyed a resurgence. Now it has its own museum 90 miles from Madrid. Significantly, the founders are the artists themselves...
...over to students an essential part of what Christ called 'the greatest commandment' deserves hardly any Christian respect." Sociologist Greeley answers that it is naive to expect that any system of education could automatically produce model Christians. At best, he says, church schools can merely develop the spirit of faith that must be first instilled in the home...
...Gospels say that after three hours of agony on the Cross, Jesus "yielded up his spirit." How, precisely, did he die? Not even Luke, who according to tradition was a doctor, offers an explanation, so it has generally been assumed that death came from the cumulative effect of the agony-thirst, heat, shock, and exhaustion. French Physician Jacques Bréhant, 59, who has been pursuing the elusive medical mystery of the Crucifixion for nearly 30 years, makes a more specific diagnosis: Jesus died of suffocation...
...your method of reading a comic book doesn't include careful analysis of the artwork, The Spirit is also funny and well-written. In the current issue, Denny Cok encounters a blonde named Lorelei who lures truck-drivers to their doom, and a Martian bank-teller named Miss Cosmek, who doesn't want to leave Earth. The next issue promises a run-in between The Spirit and a Parisian temptress who calls herself Plaster of Paris...