Word: spirits
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...conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone predicted in the ABA Journal that his former associate's collegial spirit would help build consensus among the Justices: "He has the personal skills, intelligence, patience and manner to work out compromises and find common ground...
Devlin, 33, comes from a movie family (his father is a producer; his actress mother appeared in a '60s Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold," as a princess killed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper); adapting Fred Allen's famous jape about television, he says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood." He knows that movies are to steal from. "More than any other genre," Devlin says, "science fiction cannot deny what comes before it. So, when we did a science-fiction film, especially one like this, where we wanted to have fun, we said...
...Xers are commonly told by he popular press that we are a disillusioned generation. While I generally believe this characterization to be inaccurate, it is true that I haven't noticed a real national spirit among my peers...
There was something quite moving about this strangely-united crowd singing the anthem. It was the first time I had sung the "Star Spangled Banner" in public since the last time I attended a Red Sox game six years before (my patriotism and Boston team spirit seem to have dissapated at approximately the same time...
...Recipients of the Kyoto Prizes must be...people who are sensitive to their own human fallibility, and who have a deeply rooted reverence for the universal spirit," wrote Inamori...