Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several people connected with the bureau say both Harvard and the NBER have benefitted from their close relationship. The bureau fosters a community spirit, provides an efficient and effective environment for study, as well as office space, resources and access to other economists. In addition, some say it may be easier to get grant money through the NBER than through an individual application. The bureau, in turn, has at its disposal young and outstanding economists. "Harvard has been very good in facilitating our operation," McLure says...
...richest blessings continue to follow Orthodox Jewish Scholar Pinchas Lapide [May 7]. His teachings concerning Jesus, the Christ of my faith, may indeed do much to unite Jew and Christian in a spirit of love and respect as we go our separate ways...
...drew cartoons with religious messages and once sent his mother a picture of a red, white and blue electric chair captioned, "Spirit of '76." He wrote letters for illiterate inmates and designed stationery for others, decorating the letterheads with hands clasped in prayer. "If I ever get out of here," he said at one point, "I'll do God's work." He occupied much of each day answering his mail, inscribing envelopes with the message: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MEANS THOSE WITHOUT CAPITAL GET THE PUNISHMENT. Twice a week he was visited by a girlfriend, divorcee Carla...
Congress scrapped the quotas in 1974, but the sweetheart spirit survives. Under a four-year-old program of Government subsidies and price supports, growers still get twice the world level, or at least 150 per Ib. Now they are pushing legislation to add another eight-tenths of 10 to supports, and to keep the price rising by a full 7% annually until 1981. The raise may not seem like much, but each one-penny increase adds $500 million a year to Americans' grocery expenses...
...strength of Tippett's conception comes through despite such flaws, es pecially in the visionary final scenes. After the racial violence, an astral spirit speaks to a chorus of tripped-out hippies in the words of Jung and Shakespeare; but when they hail the spirit as a savior, he sneers, "You must be joking." No comforting re ceived wisdom for Tippett. Lev's dying wife Nadia recalls from her Russian childhood the sound of ice breaking on the rivers in springtime. As Lev and Yuri achieve a provisional reconciliation, the orchestra sounds the ice-break motif, suggesting...