Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...conviction is that the spirit behind both the musical and the CRIMSON review is a violation of the tact and generosity required if those of various traditions are to live together as members of the same community. We reject the pseudo-sophistication which ridicules deeply-held convictions of our brothers and sisters...
...felt their values scorned or ridiculed by my review. However, I had hoped that people would understand the distinction between an assault on personal religious belief-which my review was not-and an appreciation of a play which I (and apparently 1200 others) found to be very funny. The spirit of my review was satire and not scorn; humor, and the binding warmth of group amusement, was what I took to be the spirit of the play...
...Since the Middle Ages, the common law has entitled landlords to leave most repairs to tenants. But the growth of apartment living in the U.S. has raised sharp questions about landlords who blithely ignore faulty heating, lighting and plumbing. In that spirit, a decision written by Judge J. Skelly Wright for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia empowered tenants to withhold rent if the landlord fails to keep the premises in decent condition. Now all D.C. landlords are accountable and no tenant can be evicted for using his rent as a weapon to enforce his right...
...directions sometimes seem absurdly long, it is because the authors are bent on enabling a twelve-year-old to turn out a fine puff paste on first try. Still, Julia observes, "you must be interested in good food and good meals and you must have some devil-may-care spirit-je m'en foutisme. There is too much fear of failure in this culture...
...crime: The D.C. crime bill, in particular, "violates both the spirit and the letter of due process;" while "liberal Democrats are too quick to panic on that issue and move on to Agnew's ground...