Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis in private peace talks, the eager and worried Egyptian seemed determined to pursue his all-out style of public diplomacy. Before leaving for the U.S., Sadat last week sent off "An Open Letter to American Jews," published in the Miami Herald. He urged them to "revive the spirit of accommodation and meaningful coexistence" in order to "reinforce our belief in the oneness of the human cause." He complained that "the Israeli government in the past few weeks has been negative and disappointing...
...presentation seemed like a well-tailored tribute to his American audience. A blaring rendition of Porgy and Bess paced his models at the Inter-Continental Hotel, and he described the Gershwin classic, now onstage in Paris, as the source of his inspiration and "the epitome of the American spirit ... modern, sexy, amusing and full of gaiety." Saint Laurent's focus on the American spirit may have been good business as well as good showmanship. He was no doubt considering the American boutiques for which his couture styles will eventually be adapted...
...South Africa's black majority, apartheid is a system of laws imposed arbitrarily by whites, and it is designed to crush blacks in spirit as well as to exploit their labor. In the end, the play suggests, apartheid manages to make the people who suffer under it as brutal as the laws themselves; by making every normal human need criminal, apartheid has created its own criminals...
Chavez lifted the boycott in "a spirit of cautious optimism," Irving Hirshenbaum, the Cambridge organizer of the UFW, said yesterday...
...strong dissent, the minority report rejects the idea that "the Holy Spirit contradicts in our experience what He has clearly said in the whole fabric of Scripture." It considers the male-female distinction part of God's design to make human life coherent, concluding that homosexuals have a "distorted or insufficient belief in who they are." Even though all Christians sin in various ways, the minority felt that the church cannot afford to condone a practice that the Bible so clearly rejects: "Neither laypersons nor ministers are free to adopt a life-style of continuing, conscious, habitual and unrestricted...