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Word: spiritism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good people," he says, "and they represent the opinion of the country." As a rule, Briare has given a third of its vote to the left, two-thirds to De Gaulle. This time, the margin may be narrower. Dabard predicts 60% approval. Why? "We've lost our national spirit," he says. "France cannot be governed except by a strong authority. We have found the authority, but we don't like it any more." That is no small admission, coming from a pocket-size version of De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Nation in Miniature | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Sign Wavers. Though the field was sinking, the spirit of the Montreal fans was not. Wearing the gaudy red, white and blue souvenir cap of the Expos, they turned out 29,184-strong for the historic opening day. But then, neither baseball nor big crowds are new to Montreal. Back in 1948, when it was the home of the top farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Montreal Royals drew 477,664, eclipsing the gate of at least one major league team that year. Even so, last week's game had all the aura of a new and extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Au Jeu! | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...significant disturbance in the path of Barnard's star. And it was not until 1963 that he had analyzed his results carefully enough to announce that a planet-sized object rather than a dim star was orbiting Barnard. "I wanted to tread slowly," he explains. "The Zeitgeist-the spirit of the time-had to be just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Mysterious Companions Of Barnard's Star | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...order to rejoice in it. It's a little too easy to celebrate a past that others went through at such a cost.... While we realize that slavery gave some people a love of freedom, it also gave many others a fear of white power. Slavery destroyed the spirit of many black people. You know, it was very ambiguous to have on Martin Luther King's tombstone the words 'Free at Last.' Is that what you have to go through as a black person to be free at last...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: On Black Students and Black Studies | 4/24/1969 | See Source »

...writes of the pilgrimage: "Throughout the centuries it had been on the way, towards light and wonder, and each member, each group, indeed our whole host and its great pilgrimage, was only a wave in the eternal stream of human begins, of the eternal strivings, of the human spirit towards the East, towards Home. The knowledge passed through my mind like a ray of light and immediately reminded me of a phrase which I had learned during my novitiate year, which always pleased me immensely without my realizing its full significance. It was a phrase by the poet Novalis, 'Where...

Author: By Jay Cantor and John G. Short, S | Title: ..More of the Acid Trippers | 4/23/1969 | See Source »

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