Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both are also in that sad twilight of their life, when the body begins to betray even an indomitable spirit. When Castro addressed an election-eve rally on Jan. 9, all his 71 years were recorded on his face: a beard grown gray, deep bags pouching out below red-rimmed eyes, age spots dotting his forehead. His hands, always a forceful punctuation to his orations, jerked spasmodically. Rumors abound of strokes, Alzheimer's and other infirmities...
...then politics turned into a rich man's game, played out in White House bedrooms and over $100,000 plates of chicken cordon bleu. Anyone seeking angst and tension--as well as grit and struggle and nobility of spirit--was obliged to turn to sports. And turn we did, with our hearts and souls. In the town of Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans...
...were into Hunter Thompson," he says. "We did stuff in that spirit...
...that there ismuch to fear today. But if the academic world wereto grant the conclusion that there is little or nohope, the baleful predictions might well cometrue. When more universities reject self pity andtake instead a forthright stand against eachunfounded attack, the education can match in itsown defense that spirit of progress and initiativewhich has marked its advance in every otherintellectual endeavor...
Unlike the rest of the service, Cleaver's address was completely contrary to the spirit and values of King, and unbefitting his memory. In Cleaver's rendering of the civil rights movement, King's assassination was only a minor occurrence, which foreshadowed the main story of the Oakland police department's persecution of the Black Panther Party. (Cleaver ridiculously equated to the persecution in Nazi Germany.) And the extent to which Cleaver's address focused on her ex-husband, Eldridge Cleaver, wounded in a shoot-out with Oakland police, was enough to make one think it was actually Eldridge Cleaver...