Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also exported many nonmaterial things, including a new concept of woman's role that is slowly catching on abroad. But perhaps the most valuable commodity that the U.S. has given to the rest of the world is the basic American spirit that has made possible its affluence and style of living and that blends its material possessions into a unified pattern of existence. Bertrand Russell summed up the American outlook as: "Man is lord of the earth: what he wants, he can get by energy and intelligence." By its example, the U.S. showed the world that things could...
...explosive stage last week on the night before shooting was scheduled to begin. Police arrested Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young men and a giant poster reading...
...reopening the theater to life, action and meaning. Whatever happens, the theatergoer should have a vantage point offered by no other art. He has a right to demand a place in the fire pit of existence, there to behold the spectacle of man in all his folly, pride and spirit...
...bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
...years, has contributed an introduction that pays sentimental homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...