Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward Moore Kennedy, LL.D., U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. Boston College salutes the indomitable Kennedy spirit with pride and gratitude too deep for tears...
Erwin Dain Canham, L.H.D., editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor and new president, the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Tough-minded but temperate, he authenticates the essential spirit of the encomium-a Christian gentleman...
...their observance of the law as Orthodox Jews. Petuchowski proposes that Judaism needs a new understanding and appreciation of Halacha (religious law) as a basis for unity: a Jew's piety should not be judged by how many of the 613 daily rules he keeps but by the spirit with which he conforms his life to God's will...
...arrived at Linda Hackett's Park Avenue apart ment with a written warning that she would have to do something about keeping her bosom in. "Band-Aids don't work," she later declared. But Linda, who designs clothes herself, engineered it all with a mysterious combination of "spirit gum and something else...
...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...