Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal is to engender Radcliffe spirit by providing students with an education about the college's history and provoking interest in its future," Stephanie Bell '79 another committee member, said...
...that was that. Their spirit broken, their tongues lagging from fatigue, the lid was sealed on Harvard's hopes of a major upset. South Carolina churned into second gear with a 28-11 spurt over the next ten minutes that made the score 80-57 with 3:31 left...
Religion and insanity occupy adjacent territories in the mind; historically, cults have kept up a traffic between the two. The medieval Brethren of the Free Spirit, the heretical Beghards and Beguines who practiced in Cologne and other Northern European cities, became nihilistic megalomaniacs. They began in rags but then, in the conviction of their spiritual superiority, which they eventually believed to surpass God's, adopted the idea that the general run of mankind existed merely to be exploited, through robbery, violence and treachery. In 1420 a cult of Bohemians called the Adamites came to regard themselves, like the Manson...
...renaissance of the life and spirit of Spain, much like a fresh spring that follows a long and miserable winter, began on Nov. 20, 1975. On that day, Francisco Franco died, and on that day began the flowering of Spanish democracy...
Karla Kuskin's A Space Story (Harper & Row; $6.95) mixes the wandering spirit of science fiction with the unalterable facts of astronomy. Gazing at a night full of stars. Sam asks his mother what kind of people could possibly live out there. Galaxies away, another boy gazes out at a different sky and wonders what kind of people could possibly live out there...