Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for more than $10 billion in reparations to war-crimes victims...
Essential to Borges' vision is a conviction of oneness. To Borges, every human act, however slight, affects all other events. It is a world of perfect complicity. Little wonder that youthful readers in search of community find Borges a kindred spirit. Yet his work suggests that community is reached not by simply linking arms or sharing pot but through sacrifice...
Yesterday's rally concentrated on two examples of Harvard's policies toward its own workers and workers in the rest of the country. John H. Petrey '71, one of the organizers, described the rally as "disappointing in size but not in spirit...
Farneti received the Crocker award as the Crimson's most valuable player, while Waldstein-who was lost for the season in the Penn game with torn cartlleges-was presented the LaCroix award "for his enthusiasm for the game and his spirit for the team...
What gives the book flesh and weight, however, is not local color. It is the lecherous old rationalist Restif, whose expert portrait by Karmel, in turn, reflects more of the spirit of revolutionary Paris than any neutral reportage is likely to do. Karmel nudges the reader once or twice too often to see parallels between Restif's Revolution and those of modern times. But he has superbly proved his boast that "this is the book Restif did not write but should have." All it lacks is a modest degree of "truth in packaging...