Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, the prevailing student attitude--exaggerated as it may be--produces an interest in the running of the college that is commensurate with the spirit of inquiry that Sarah Lawrence attempts to foster. Former president Harold Taylor, who retired last year, discussed administrative matters freely with the students, encouraging the feeling that the students work hand in hand with, rather than under the aegis of, the administration. The feeling of intellectual community appears to be a movement away from individualism. One suspects that individualism came first to Sarah Lawrence, and that the community spirit represents an attempt at moderation...
Rocky's problem of staking out issues, without appearing to be at odds with the Eisenhower Administration, began to show itself in Chicago. Implicit in his invocation of "a spirit that rises above the cliches and controversies of crude partisanship" was his reach for a position that might reveal him as a friend to Democrats as well as Republicans. For his pains the Chicago Tribune called him a "crypto-New Dealer," warned that his economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment...
Getting into the spirit of the thing, one Kalinin house of culture director suggested that the nation's poets and composers hold a competition for the most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals. He also wanted peace doves released at each ceremony. But of all the proposals Izvestia received, none hit the mark so squarely as one from Odessa. After complaining about the "colorless and dreary routine" of the registry offices, V. Runanov suggested that every city have "a special building-the best...
...national election is a new thing, and millions have never voted before, but it did not take long for Nigerians to get into the spirit of it. When the Eastern Region Premier, Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe invaded Western Region territory to address one group of villagers, his opponents dismantled the bridge across the river, forcing Zik to paddle across by canoe. Zik studied at five different U.S. colleges, while his principal rival, Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region, was educated at London University. Awolowo. campaigning for votes in the Moslem North, had hardly begun to speak at one meeting when...
...barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...