Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer came like a roar: "The highest military virtue is the fighting spirit. It demands roughness and determination. Cowardice is despicable, while hesitation is unmilitary...
...broadcastin' our spiritual exercises. . . . Remember, words are the spirit, the very spirit of life. No matter how big and strong the body may be physically, it's dead without the spirit. When a man pulls a gun and says 'Run,' the word 'run' with the knowledge of the gun does you a spiritual wrong. For, as a man thinketh, so is he. . . . Whatsoever is true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report-If there by any virtue, think on these things...
...Magic Mountain, will not hesitate to plunge into the bottomless well of Joseph and His Brothers. Readers to whom Thomas Mann is only a newspaper name may well take fright at the book s forbidding brink. For Author Mann's latest excursion toward the boundaries of the human spirit is in an uncharted direction, a descent into the past which is no easy tumble into a fanciful Avernus but a painful, foot-by-foot groping for handholds...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...alas, the estimable gentleman has made one glaring error! He has lost his understanding of the American mind! The latter being a very curious, not to say unfathomable phenomenon, Herr Hanfstaengl might be excused. However, since he is quick to catch "the spirit of discipline" in America, let him learn the following: America, Mr. Hanfstaengl, can be both highly flattered and highly insulted without showing her teeth. She loves to be called "energetic" and "idealistic," even though she has twelve million unemployed, and her leaders are caught in all sorts of selfish, materialistic ventures. She has what you call...