Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hours after the operation, General Eisenhower's fighting spirit seemed to be seeing him through. "He is a soldier," said a hospital information officer. "He is used to the discipline of a soldier...
...University. Most of his works were agonizingly abstruse and seemingly preoccupied with reconciliation to failure and death as prescriptions for personal salvation. But The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1949) was both a definitive defense of his own existentialist position and a vigorous affirmation of the durability of the human spirit...
Rattling past this bend one June day in 1959 came the incarnate spirit of the emancipated and emancipating 20th century-a bright and determined Vassar girl in a Jeep. Neither the girl nor the town has ever been quite the same since. For between Ann Cornelisen and "Torregreca," the false name under which she has concealed the town's identity, a foreordained contest of wills took place. Chronicling this confrontation, the author might have been expected to produce another bumptious account (subtitle: The Triumph of Progress) of New World ways v. Old World meanies...
Pigeon kickers may find its meanness of spirit a trifle overdone, but readers who have long cherished a shy yearning to beat up crippled newsboys will be delighted with Keith Waterhouse's new comic novel. It is possible, of course, to write gaily about any abomination-Brendan Behan turned out two successful stage comedies about men who were to be executed in the morning, neither with a happy ending-but it is hard to recall anything quite like Waterhouse's merry laughter at his main character's torment...
Argonne "Work-In." Planners of the March 4 movement anticipate opposition from the scientific community. Indeed, it has already materialized. A dissenting group of M.I.T. professors who support the discussions has signed a statement condemning any work stoppage, which they say "misrepresents the spirit and character of research in a free academic community. Research is not something to be turned on or off like a faucet; it is a matter of continuing involvement...