Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abolishing ROTC will not bring the war to an end, or the military establishment to its knees. But the arguments for abolishing ROTC are strong, and the Faculty should act on them. Above all, ending ROTC at Harvard will help to create the critical independent spirit which should be the only ideology of a university...
Preventive Measures. Others continued to replay the events of Nov. 22, 1963, and June 5, 1968, as if to exorcise a demon from the national spirit. No fewer than nine new books were on the market in the U.S. eulogizing John or Robert Kennedy, or probing their assassinations. In Russia, Anatoly Gromyko, son of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, published a mildly sympathetic study on J.F.K.-the first book-length examination of any kind to be printed in the Soviet Union-entitled The 1036 Days of President Kennedy, borrowing heavily from Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen, but mostly picturing...
...characteristic tone of Levantine lament is scarcely heard, since music that weeps and words soaked in pain might dismay the theater-party ladies. The dances have the look of old folk dances-any old folk. Greek fire is missing. Zorba danced because words could not contain his vaulting spirit. Bernardi clodhops, while the supporting cast dances by a timetable as if it were catching a train...
...spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1910 and Yale in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others, who do not know that there is a Harvard spirit of less fame but no less power. Spirit counts, but who can say, "Here, is a true fighting spirit; there, is none?" In the end it is a question of faith, and we place ours in Harvard...
...spirit here at Yale is definitely not as great as last year," admits one student. "I guess we will have some peprallies and tickets are impossible to find, but it's not the same this time...