Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Vallecas school, which sought to escape from academicism and create a new kind of national art based on themes and images from Spanish tradition and folklore. Even while he lived as an exile in Russia, his sculpture, primarily in wood and sheet iron, remained distinctly Iberian in spirit. "He saw art in everything," his widow Clara recently recalled. "And once he had seen it, everything became a work of art. It all served his purpose-clay, stones he stumbled across on a path, old wood, a piece of iron...
...tente in the West may also serve to deter Western nations from a highly tempting ploy: forming ties with China. Moscow evidently hopes that the Western nations, and especially West Germany, will soon feel so committed by the spirit of conciliation that they will not wish to endanger their good and profitable relations with Russia by flirting with China. In Peking, the Chinese appear fearful that the Soviet success in sealing the status quo in Europe will give Russia a free hand in the East to threaten China and undermine Chinese influence in Asia...
Last week the regime announced the imminent release of about 500 leftists who were arrested after the 1967 coup. Those to be released had demonstrated, said a government spokesman, a "spirit of cooperation." Since 332 prisoners were released in April, some 600 less cooperative leftists are still in prison; the figure is nevertheless below the number of persons jailed for political reasons during the last years of the conservative pre-junta Karamanlis regime...
Apprehensive at first, many New York merchants now support the ban. For one thing, a survey conducted by New York's Department of Commerce and Industry found that 77% of the strollers along Fifth Avenue stopped to shop on car-free days. For another, the festive spirit and near absence of smog apparently enticed more shoppers into mid-Manhattan. Suddenly the avenue was full of baby carriages, bicyclists, street musicians and smiling couples, all reveling in the car-free quiet and safety of what had become a wall-to-wall sidewalk...
...part, for the purpose of obstructing law-enforcement agencies. The participants and their sympathizers, of course, see the issue differently. Sister Jogues Egan, a former provincial of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, and a strong Berrigan supporter, suggested that the Delaware statement was in the spirit of the defiance displayed by Denmark's King Christian in World War II: he wore a yellow Star of David when the Nazis ordered Danish Jews to so identify themselves...