Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
Dubinsky reluctantly admits that the old pizazz is missing, but points out that in places where the going gets tough, the "spirit of 1900 comes back to us. In the South and in Puerto Rico, we have good militant strikes, just like old times...
...were enthusiastic. Typical was the response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...
...movement that began during World War I. For Mondrian, the ascetic ideal of De Stijl was renunciation of the physical representation of things. His art was right-angular, asymmetrical, and colored only in the primaries of red, blue and yellow. All lines were straight-for the sake of the spirit. Wrote he: "Natural roundness, in a word, corporeality, gives a purely materialist version of objects." Followers of De Stijl designed furniture, built architecture and patterned typography, industrial and household items after its Mondrianesque rules of severity. This year Mondrian's rigid purism has been stretched over shapes more curvilinear...
...floating around," he says. "The problem is to find an acceptable one. I don't expect that my path will be strewn with roses." Negotiations toward any change will be hard, and agreement will be long in coming, but Fowler's trip to Europe has already heightened a new spirit of compromise and led to a general agreement among the money managers that