Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After spending most of the past five years in New Haven, Segal shys away from comparisons between Yale and Harvard. "I feel detached from Harvard," he said. "Yale is more isolated, but there's a real spirit here in the colleges, and there is a belief in the University as an institution...
Vogelsinger also praised the morale of the team. "I told them at the beginning of the year that we might not win a single game," he said. "But they've stayed in every game. The overall spirit of this team has been the best I have ever...
These lines of character development, of growth not only foreshadowed but violently curtailed by external pressure, are what Fat City is about. In a series of sharply-etched vignettes, Gardner captures not only the spirit of his characters but the atmosphere stifling them: the turgid California sun beating down on the backs of sweating laborers, greasy blackness pervading a gas station lube room, ammonia and blood coating the floors of locker room and arena...
...spirit of the Zen master captured in a (Zen) portrait, like the spirit of Zen teaching from mind to mind, is the "be-ingness" in a photograph that White proposes as an ideal form. Be-ingness is like photographing one hand clasping...
Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...