Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit of not pandering to the prevailing idea of what rock music should be like" that compelled Chris A. Hunter '02 to comp the station...
...Bosnia, by not sticking to the spirit of the 1995 Dayton peace accord and allowing the wartime leadership of Republika Srpska to put down roots in the postwar power structure, the West left room for much of the war scum to float back to the top. These men pumped out heavily separatist and anti-Western propaganda while they obstructed the implementation of Dayton's provisions for reunification. Two weeks ago, as the delicately stitched-together nation seemed to be recovering, the Serbs in their republic voted out moderate President Biljana Plavsic, a key part of Western plans to build...
...share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about the physicality of slavery--who did what...
...Oprah as Sethe: Victim or murderer? The story is based on the true case of Margaret Garner, a renegade slave who tried to kill her children rather than allow them to be returned to the plantation from which she had escaped. In the novel, Sethe is pursued by the spirit of the one child, Beloved, who died at her hand. But the film is really about the things we do for love, about the fatal consequences of moral strength, about the need to hold on to what we've given up for lost or dead...
...club. In 1997 she launched the Angel Network, an ongoing campaign to spur her viewers into doing good works, like building houses for needy families, volunteering at local schools and saving spare change to fund college scholarships. She recently added a regular segment to her show titled "Remembering Your Spirit," which focuses on the rather lofty goal of soothing viewers' souls. "Oprah set the standard in daytime television," says fellow daytime host Rosie O'Donnell. "She consistently maintains a decency and morality on her show that gives talk shows a positive name...