Word: spirited
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...that america has become the pothole of the world economy? I think it's because the American people, losing their frontier spirit, sat back, relaxed and enjoyed their opulent status quo. They wallowed in their country's No. 1 position in the world too long. They have to reawaken themselves in a belt-tightening way, not in a nebulously optimistic one. Il-Hwan Lee, Seoul...
...this time, Kandinsky was on his own, artistically. The train of followers that he predicted in his book failed to materialise. And that new age he had been so sure of never did dawn. But after his death in 1944, his spirit lived on in the postwar design explosion that sprayed color onto a grey and battered world. And today, his work perfectly illustrates progress toward an ideal - a rarity in a world consumed with art for art's sake...
...does a great job,” he added. To top it off, Gillepsie does it all with a massive beard. “I think it makes him look like a 40-year-old man,” Saretsky said. “He is certainly a free spirit. It’s his thing and I’m all about the individual.”“I haven’t performed any sort of experiment, but I guess I could shave half of my face and go half as much faster...
...This regime of miscellany—motley enough to impress Ben Schott—will, according to the College, “connect [the student’s] liberal education—that is, an education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry, rewarding in its own right—to life beyond college.” The hapless freshman, who trusted the so very many rankings and social signals that assured him there was no place like Harvard for a liberal education, has been badly shortchanged. While he will have spent $3,000 on books for his classes...
Yale: 1. School spirit? Check! Deep-seated inferiority complex? Of course not! Who told you that? BOOLAH-BOOLAH DANNY BOY! 2. Prefrosh. The place your annoying prefrosh roommate can’t stop talking about because she knows she’s going there for sure because the campus is so much prettier than Harvard’s and the people are way smarter and cooler and hotter and she’s too good for Harvard anyway but her parents made her visit…etc. Synonyms. Stanford, Princeton, Brown. Antonyms...