Word: spiritous
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...Long Slog Ahead Seldom do I become irritated, but Simon Robinson's "Feeling the Spirit" left me seething [March 17]. Nobody should underestimate the enormous job the next U.S. President will have in restoring America's reputation, which has been damaged so badly by the current Administration. Here in Austria there is a huge feeling of anti-Americanism, not just because of the Iraq war but for many other issues as well. And judging from the comments of colleagues and friends throughout Europe and farther afield, it seems the whole world is laughing at the U.S., a country that...
...don’t gotta worry about that with me because I perform both ways—they can sit there or they can get involved...In fact, you know how it’s like when somebody go to church and the holy ghost come into they spirit? That’s how I do when I get on stage. I put the spirit in people...
...avoid decadence and decay, he argues, the Chinese must emulate the ferocious independence of the wolves and the nomadic Mongols who lived in harmony with them. And not just the Mongols but the Europeans also. "The stories of the wolves are Chinese stories but they manifest the Western [European] spirit. Nomadic people are prone to explore, fight, and develop commerce, like what has happened in the West," he explains. "While farmers have a narrow minded attitude that puts themselves in a cage. That's why, even if Chinese people were given democracy, they wouldn't want it. Chinese...
...book. The wolves - those symbols of perfect freedom - are exterminated by officials as part of a plan to turn the grasslands over to large-scale farming, and Chen Zhen, the protagonist, can find only hackneyed, metaphysical solace as he meditates upon a wolf-cub pelt, imagining the cub's spirit in "the place where all the souls of Mongolian wolves that had died in battles over the millennia congregated." One is left wondering if millions of Chinese readers also believe that freedom only waits in heaven, or if they feel it to be something worth striving for on earth...
...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it was Sarkozy who looked keenest for a kick about, back-heeling a ball toward a much more bashful Brown. And while on paper, neither leader had to concede any precious ground in a summit declaration pledging closer ties between Britain and France, in spirit, Sarkozy's signature stood out the boldest...