Word: geist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when that sport is fostered, through the construction of cement courts and clean washroom facilities, the sparkling concommitants of the sport's success are increased student concern with personal hygiene and the uplifting weltenschaung of a dynamic new geist...
...this new self-definition and self-assertiveness of blacks must more fully enter the functional dimension. For too many black students, "blackness" is defined solely within the ritualistic sphere; that is, being one with the Black Geist deals only on the symbolic level. Black cultural uniqueness must be preserved, but it also must invorporate achievement-oriented behavior that has been universally and historically proven to elevate the power-mustering capacity of a people, thereby alleviating the oppression of blacks...
Nearly eleven years ago, a 27-year-old sculptor named Mark di Suvero had his first show in New York. His burly constructions of steel pipe, chains and massive timbers had an exhilarating effect on younger New York artists; hosannas rose from critics. "Here," exclaimed Sidney Geist in Arts magazine, "was a body of work so ambitious and intelligent, so raw and clean, so noble and accessible, that it must permanently alter our standards of artistic effort...