Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They came from every part of the globe, speaking a babble of tongues and carrying little but hope as luggage. From 1840 on, they arrived in a wave that was perpetually at flood tide, furnishing the growing U.S. with the sinew and spirit to build its railroads and create its industries. Often they faced a grinding struggle for survival in the New World's harsh slums and wind-whipped prairies, but somehow the immigrants managed to take root. Out of their extraordinary exodus - which John F. Kennedy called "the largest migration of people in all recorded history" -rose...
...fought poverty for more than 5,000 years-but until recently without any real expectation that the fight could ever be won. Hinduism and Buddhism encouraged almsgiving but reconciled themselves to poverty by suggesting that it is a requisite for man's prime goal: the enrichment of spirit instead of body. The Hebrews equated poverty with suffering, extolled charity as one of the greatest virtues, and declared, in Proverbs, that "He who mocks the poor insults his Maker." Christ's most famous pronouncement on the problem-"For you always have the poor with you"-is usually quoted...
...poor by the Government do not think of themselves that way. Says a Houston cleaning woman: "I've got three kids at home, and I raised them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants to check up on just...
When Roy Roberts took over at the Star, it was a case of one corpulent autocrat replacing another. The paper's founder, 300-lb. William Rockhill Nelson, turned to journalism after dabbling in real estate, cotton farming and contracting. Defeats had only stirred Nelson's crusading spirit, and he wasted no time getting his paper embroiled in fights for clean government, clean streets and clean souls. Derided by Kansas City's four other papers, the Star overtook them all, and by World War I had a circulation of 200,000. "Nelson could be mean as hell," says...
Such was the bequest of José Clemente Orozco, and in his day his gigantic murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three.* For his contemporaries, Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from eleven years of brutal class warfare triggered by the Revolution of 1910. They are all there in his paintings, the heroes of the revolution: Zapata, Pancho Villa, Carranza, and the armed peons marching off to war. Their faces are shrouded by their sombreros, or they are often seen from the back, the anonymous masses...