Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...
...excessive number of strings, plus modern oboes and timpani, produced a far richer sound than their Baroque counterparts. And one could make a nice chorale out of the notes missed by the brass (an off night for them generally). But no matter; this was charming music, realized with spirit, and it is promising to find Jackson venturing into unrecorded repertory...
Germany. After all, 6,000,000 Poles-half of them Jewish-were killed by Hitler. "Right stands against right," declared the memorandum, "or-still more dramatically-injustice against injustice." Nowhere did the memorandum demand a dropping of the expellees' claims, but it did ask for a "spirit of reconciliation." The response was far from conciliatory...
...Congolese Senate. "The race for the top is finished," Mobutu declared. "Our political leaders had engaged in a sterile struggle to grab power without consideration for the welfare of the citizens. Political bank ruptcy was complete. We are going to change that and try to impose everywhere the spirit of discipline...
...alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...