Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Though those who fly the flag in a traditional spirit sometimes speak in voices that are capable of chauvinism and boosterism, they very often feel an intensely deep patriotism. To begin with, observes Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, "many Americans are first, second-or third-generation. The proudest moment in the lives of their parents or grandparents was the citizenship ceremony when they received the flag. My own immigrant father took every chance to fly the flag as an affirmation of citizenship. You don't have to do this in England or France, where nationhood is deduced from history. Here...
...gambling increased fourfold. Hard-drug usage-heroin, cocaine-multiplied ten times over. Gradually the plot of history and the quirks of society grew nastier-Suez, Profumo, the 1966 Moors murder trial. Today, Booker judges, the Great Freak-Out is over. Reality has caught up with fantasy, and the spirit of collective hangover lies upon the land...
...Commission, the year 1976 was to be no ordinary national birthday party. Instead of creating battlefield reruns or splashy carnivals of no lasting value, the eelebration money would be used to redevelop a city or even an entire region. This regional concentration would be the quintessence of the national spirit, demonstrating the admirable virtues of teamwork, brainpower and American know...
That's the first omnibus admission. Architecture, traditionally the grand representation of the spirit of a people, had, in America become separated from any public-inspired or culturally-attractive purposes, and had begun to lick the heels of business...
...rank and file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery to effect that destruction-depends upon a curious combination of primitive-tribal Communism, good Samaritanism, soak-the-sucker capitalism, live-on-the-dole socialism and the riding spirit of Robin Hoodism...