Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From his earliest writings on Bismarck and Metternich to the final chapter of this final volume of his 3,769-page trilogy of memoirs, Kissinger has remained true to his realist tilt. "The United States," he concludes, "must temper its missionary spirit with a concept of the national interest and rely on its head as well as its heart in defining its duty to the world...
...faint of spirit, or the weak of back. It is a grueling combination of punches, kicks and squats set to the rhythms of hip-hop. Blanks first experimented with the karate-like sequences in his basement in Erie, Pa., two decades ago. He later opened a studio in California, where he has taught the routine to such famed hardbodies as Paula Abdul, Lisa Rinna and Wayne Gretzky. Last August he brought Tae-Bo to the people...
...very least to your television set. Tae-Bo marketers shell out about $2 million weekly to air his 30-min. infomercial across the country. Lose weight! Kick butt! Free your spirit! All that is yours simply by buying a set of four videos for three easy payments of $19.95. And Blanks has crossed over into free TV too. He turned up on ER last month and spent a week with Oprah in the Bahamas. No wonder Tae-Bo videos have grossed some $75 million and placed in the top five of both the Billboard and Amazon.com charts last week. Consider...
...implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories in toddler raiment. For Iran is not only a leader in world film; it is the leader in children's films. This is Iran's cinema spirit: humanism with a kid's face...
...wrong. I applaud both the method and spirit of protest promulgated by the Living Wage Campaign. But the fight against the administration for higher wages for both sub-contracted and regular Harvard employees is really a matter of principle. For once, we have shed our solipsistic crimson-colored sunglasses and moved beyond an issue of personal concern. Rather than frozen yogurt in houses and booze at house formals, we have awakened to the fact that what Harvard really lacks are the virtuous ideals conveyed by its emblem, Veritas. The notions of fairness and equality (among workers wages) as well...