Word: spirits
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...Persian Gulf War. But in music, you'd think there was a jump from the upbeat Top 40 of Reagan's America--epitomized in Madonna's "Material Girl" (1984)--to the brooding alternative explosion of Clinton's '90s, marked by Nirvana's breakthrough hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991). In making that leap you'd skip both the George Bush years and the apex of a key musical genre: the power ballad...
Last week's Democracy Teach-Ins represented a step in the right direction at Harvard. While Harvard did not trample over itself to attend the Teach-Ins, we applaud the programs' spirit and urge students to carry it into the myriad community organizations that share in that spirit...
TIME wasn't born grownup and mature as it is today, although it's hard not to think of it that way. It was born in the abounding ambition of youthful dreams. All of us who work here want to be enlivened--and emboldened--by that spirit today, as we embark on the magazine's 76th year...
...Jazz has unhappily splintered into hostile camps, musically and racially. The spirit and sound of each variety of jazz is carefully analyzed, isolated and pronounced a 'bag.' Within each bag, imitation of the 'daddy' spreads through the ranks like summer fires." --Feb. 28, 1964, from a cover story on Thelonious Monk...
...records on "spittin' image" should certainly be kept straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing--without dialect--is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of some person whose father had passed on--and the colored folks would say--"the very spi't an' image of his daddy." JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS JR. Atlanta...