Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success or failure of Vatican II cannot be judged merely by the bulk of written documents. More important is the spirit that brought the council together and inspired its discussions. The most apparent impact of those discussions was the bishops' self-discovery of their common responsibility for the church as a whole. By working together, says Dr. John K. S. Reid, an observer from the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, "the council has enabled the Roman Catholic Church to form a common mind. At the first session nothing was decided. In the final session, a real consensus...
...rebelled. "If the Roman Catholic Church had looked 450 years ago as it looks today," says Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, "there would never have been a Reformation." Says U.S. Lutheran Leader Franklin Clark Fry: "Thank God that the council responded to the leading of the Holy Spirit...
...Spirit of Fraternity...
...likes to shock mildly stuffy people, though it's not the Edward Albee bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of the dinner by singing, "I would have let him see me naked," a lament from his dramatization of The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. "This girl's boyfriend goes to a brothel," Kopit happily explained, "and she sings this song describing what she would have done for him. It's got violins...
Centuries of strife and poverty have made enmity a habit and cooperation a rarity in Asia. Last week the Asians took a giant stride away from the old ways and toward a spirit of mutual help. Meeting in Manila, 160 delegates from 26 nations (18 of them Asian) put the finishing touches on the long-needed Asian Development Bank launched in October in Bangkok. After intense but polite lobbying on all sides to win a nod for the location of the new bank's headquarters, the Asian delegates unexpectedly settled on Manila...