Word: spirits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...
...lottery that pays off only delusion. Hwang also plays with the notion of illusion being more powerful than reality, continuing with a theme he develops in M. Butterfly. Like M. Butterfly, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof is in many ways a study of what happens to the human spirit when all conventions and beliefs are stripped away, leaving the soul unprotected and forced to face a mocking reality...
...refuse to take the insensitivity shown last Friday "in the spirit of things." Tradition is no excuse. The annual showing of Love Story should be revamped. No one needs to wallow in pure, unadulterated sexism...
...hockey games. Bright Hockey Arena may be the only place on earth where Harvard students show school spirit. But good luck trying to get tickets for popular games...On the other hand, um, don't bother to try. The lines are too long. Yeah, and always remember the rule that upper class students get their tickets before first-year students. Yeah, that...
...spirit of individualism has recently affected the historic "non-merger merger" agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe, which joined the school's admissions offices and gave Harvard responsibility for the education and daily life of women undergraduates...