Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leslie says the networking that occurs in blackorganizations on campus fosters a spirit ofcommunal responsibility. It is just these valuablerelationships that give black students thepractical knowledge necessary to face life aftercommencement...
Naber has been in touch with Caedmon's Call since she met the band at the Spirit West Coast festival in Monterey, Calif. last July...
...Peabody is very concerned to follow boththe letter and the spirit of Harvard'spolicy...and the UNESCO accord," says Rubie S.Watson, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology...
...soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
...Night Train (Harmony; 175 pages; $20). "I am a police and my name is Detective Mike Hoolihan. And I am a woman, also." And with that satisfying jolt, we're off, as Amis once again bombards, delights, excites and irritates the reader with his hard-edged writing and warped spirit. Paying homage to the American tough-guy novelists of yore--Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler--Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness. The experiment does not always work, but this little book never gets boring...