Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the brevity of the papal conclave and the selection of a dark horse as the new Pope defied the predictions of worldly analysts. The inescapable conclusion is that the Holy Spirit intervened...
...Christmas, when she figures other contestants may be busy with other activities. Yet she has nothing but scorn for the Westport, Conn., pilot who submitted more than 100,000 of the 165,000 entries in a contest and won an $85,000 airplane. "That's not keeping the spirit of contesting," she sniffs...
Sadat can discard all of these options, of course, if the summit succeeds and a new "spirit of Camp David" is born. In that case the peace process would accelerate, and negotiations between Egypt and Israel would resume at a number of levels...
...courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie acknowledges that people find his calm or silent phases "mysterious." He pauses and smiles. " 'Course they...
...drawing what he could not build. Piranesi was perhaps subconsciously ex pressing a spirit caged by infinite space. In an age when reason and the romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker