Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOAL! This two-hour documentary helps to explain why soccer is the world's most popular spectator sport. Cameras from all angles have captured the ferocious spirit, footloose genius and demonic will to win of the 16 teams that competed in England last summer for the 1966 World...
...from the French border, Kiesinger charmed De Gaulle by trading erudite toasts with him, conversing at state dinners in flawless French about the merits of French authors and the joys of French wine. Result: the prospect for renewed Franco-German cooperation suddenly seemed bright again. Said De Gaulle: "The spirit of the 1963 treaty remains alive...
...values so essential to success on the gridiron are highly prized in business," Funston evangelized, inviting the nation's college-football players to try out for slots in the securities business. Like ideal businessmen, he said, football players are possessed of self-confidence, imagination, leadership and competitive spirit. Funston had better watch out. As a rule, the lads are also big and mean and pretty good at faking...
Competing with Yale. Fordham's new spirit shows up in its openly ecumenical, postconciliar attitude toward religion in education. This month the university appointed a Lutheran Church historian, the Rev. Robert L. Wilken, as a permanent member of its theology department -the first Protestant clergyman to hold such a full-time post at a Catholic university. The school also employs Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Temple Sinai in Tenafly, N.J., as a visiting lecturer. Last fall Fordham began to share libraries and lecturers with the interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; currently it is competing with Yale on a proposed affiliation...
...Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...