Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite all the disadvantages and restrictions of the Harvard program, basketball is undergoing a transformation. A new spirit of optimism and a confidence lacking the past few seasons now pervades the IAB. The laid-back, low-key days of Harvard basketball seem to have made their exit, and an aggressive, spirited program has moved into its place...
...Administration is most worried about Senator Scoop Jackson. The Washington Democrat was the bane of Henry Kissinger's existence during earlier SALT debates, and now, in a truly bipartisan spirit, he is marshaling his formidable technical expertise and political power to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as much trouble, if not more. As chairman of the Senate's arms-control subcommittee, Jackson has heard testimony on SALT II from a parade of high-level witnesses, and he has not liked what he has heard. In one subcommittee session, Jackson treated Vance in a way that one shaken...
...legislation through parliament classifying the population by race, banning marriage and I sex across the color line and imposing "pass" laws that rigidly control the movement of blacks. In all, some 300 pieces of separatist legislation form the edifice of apartheid today. Local prejudices simply reinforce the letter and spirit of the laws. A minority might endure such a system without protest, but South Africa's black majority did not. In 1960 came the bloody Sharpeville riot, in which 69 were killed as police fired on a black crowd demonstrating peaceably against the pass laws. It was a shock from...
...they actors or athletes-can be easy converts, and therefore untrustworthy in their wayward enthusiasms for abstract realms. On the more positive side, the picture suggests that if salvation is to be had, it lies in that pragmatic resistance to the con that has traditionally characterized the American spirit and is so charmingly exemplified by Reynolds...
Bertagna is also pleased by the assistance rendered by men's varsity players and coaches after their practices, and by the spirit of cooperation that exists down at Watson...