Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of only the black communities. According to Atlanta's highly regarded Mayor Maynard Jackson, blacks themselves are increasingly skeptical of black leaders. Says Jackson: "If a black candidate believes he can still excite to the same extent the vote-for-me-because-I'm-black spirit, that candidate is badly mistaken. Black people want to know what the black candidate is going to do for them...
...caucus, the newest members took little part. They apparently had come to learn, rather than to upset things. Connecticut's Bob Giaimo, chairman of the influential House Budget Committee, watched with admiration. "The newcomers are learning the ropes, not taking the lead," he noted. "The reform spirit is not in them...
...student organizations. Now known as the Art Students' Caucus (ASC) after full approval from Dean Epps and CHUL, the group is settling down to work on projects that emphasize its primary goal: encouraging students and faculty in the visual and environmental arts to adopt a collective approach and a spirit of interaction concerning arts-related issues...
...talents, instead, were as a showman. From Hasty Pudding to Hitler, Hanfy was a performer, and a skillful one. The Boston Transcript captured his spirit precisely in a story about his trip to Harvard for the 25th reunion of his class. "His loud manner and thirst for American gin captured everyone's affection...
...Brink's Job is a crime movie that has been conceived in the antic spirit of a burlesque show. Working from Writer Noel Behn's account of the celebrated 1950 Boston heist, Friedkin and Screenwriter Walon Green have created a series of loopy blackout sketches that celebrate the lunacy of some lucky penny-ante crooks. Not all of the bits are funny, but even the flat jokes have an engagingly whimsical air. From the evocative opening shot of strippers smoking on a theater fire escape to a late Borscht Belt cameo by Sheldon Leonard as J. Edgar Hoover...