Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good luck, Frankie McLaughlin. Digger is with you in spirit...
...once he achieved it he remained overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness...As his perversions of power multiplied, he could only maintain his own sense of morality by stoking the fires of grievance which had fed him for so long. So he courted new enemies, new mortifications of the spirit. And ultimately, the enemies who had once been largely his own private demons became very palpable foes who tracked him down and destroyed...
Frank McLaughlin's philosophy of basketball matches his proselytizing spirit off the court. Harvard's new head coach is trying to convert as many people as possible to his creed of bornagain Harvard basketball while at the same time converting his players to a fastbreaking, end-to-end brand of hoop...
...such has been the case up until The Goodbye Girl, a film that reveals a Richard Dreyfuss we have not seen before. This romantic comedy is a rather modest entertainment, but it forces its star to open up by placing him in a role that demands a generosity of spirit. The character Dreyfuss plays, Elliott Garfield, is a struggling New York actor who is mad for an emotionally battered Broadway dancer (Marsha Mason) who will have nothing to do with him. To win the woman's affection, Elliott must rise above his neuroses-he must be strong enough...
...less likely to welcome any challenges to official teachings. In a speech last month, Quinn gave strong endorsement to the hierarchy's exclusive authority over doctrine. In that spirit, the bishops' doctrine committee last week denounced a much disputed book commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America that favors the sexual "new morality...