Word: spirited
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When she visited Cambridge the summer before her freshman year, Pauley says the streets were awash with musicians and there was something about the creative spirit of the Square that “really jove” in her head. “I extra fell in love because of the street performers,” she said...
...screen and take over, like the Preston Sturges rep company in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero - or like Scrat the Sisyphusian squirrel in the Ice Age pictures. In Mad 2 we get some penguins and a lemur, all balm to the comic spirit...
...fact, Hunter, author of the book A New Kind of Conservative: Cooperation Without Compromise, sees Obama as a kindred spirit. They both, he says, believe that "people with differences working together without compromising our values or losing our distinctives is essential for progress." Thus Hunter also plays down another potential bone of contention between the new President and Evangelicals - Obama's July 2007 pledge to Planned Parenthood that "the first thing I'd do, as President, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" - a bill that could wipe out many of the inroads conservatives have made into strict interpretation...
...first tests of whether that new spirit will prevail in Washington may be how Senate Democrats deal with Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Senator who crossed the aisle to support John McCain in the election. During the campaign, Lieberman angered many in his longtime party by attacking Obama's experience and leadership (and occasionally even calling into question his patriotism). "Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead," Lieberman said in a speech at the Republican National Convention. "But eloquence is no substitute for a record...
...They point to existing provisions in the criminal law as sufficient to deal with the problem, and complain that the new law poses a threat to non-Muslim Indonesians. "The law imposes the will of the majority that embrace Islam, is a form of religious discrimination and against the spirit of tolerance taught by the country's founders," says Theophilus Bela, chairman of the Christian Communication Forum. "It is an effort to divide the country...