Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...TIME, March 20] made me see RED . . . Not only am I Roman Catholic, I am studying for the priesthood; and that business of the new "game" in Naples inspires me with naught but shame and disgust that one of the Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY Seminary of Philosophy Montreal, Canada...
...chronicler, writing about King Henry V, came upon Shakespeare's Henry VI and Bedford's outcry: Hung be the heavens with black! and added, in his prose, "The heavens were hung with black when Henry died." Or, as if a dull reader quoted: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, and commented: "Shelley says the skylark never was a bird...
...Factual Spirit. There had been disappointments, Vandenberg conceded, and there was reason for legitimate and necessary criticism; the "impact of Communist aggression in the Far East" could not be ignored. "These are essential subjects for judicial congressional survey in that same factual spirit which must continue to strive to put our country first in our consideration...
...foreign policy, cooperation and the factual spirit had for some time been conspicuously lacking. The Democrats, if they wanted bipartisanship, would have to do more to include the Republicans, as Vandenberg once put it, in the "takeoffs as well as the crash landings" of foreign policy. And Republicans on their side had a duty to criticize, but they also had the duty to be responsible about...
There are worse things, said Eisenhower, than war. "We like to repeat, 'There never was a good war, or a bad peace.' " But war has often produced "greatness of spirit," while peace "may be the product of chicanery, treachery and the temporary triumph of expediency over all spiritual values. The pact of Munich was a more fell blow to humanity than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima...