Word: spirits
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...that changes once a year for the Harvard-Yale game. I came to Harvard with no interest (or even really a clear understanding) of football. However, The Game is the annual outburst of school spirit on campus. When it's between us and our rivals down south, we're suddenly free to paint our faces, dress in crimson and scream for our school. However, when we all trot down to Soldier's Field, we're in for a disappointment. We are the mighty Harvard Crimson, and, as a color, we have no clear mascot. So, being traditionalists, our school...
...hunter, Teddy Roosevelt was a sort of bully Magoo, blazing away in a spirit of exuberant approximation...
...That is the spirit of American idealism when it gets into the woods: noisy inaccuracy and ethical contradiction coexisting with high principles - myopia (Roosevelt was incredibly nearsighted) and great vision...
...your special report on design innovators [TIME 100: THE NEXT WAVE, July 17]: It speaks well for the human mind and spirit that innovators and revolutionaries continue to exist. Though many people can't tolerate anything "too different," it's encouraging to see how diverse our creative nature can be when disdaining the status quo. The type of innovation you described resonates with that sweet Don't Fence Me In melody. CAMERON NORMAN Grand Marais, Minn...
...dessert cart! I hesitate to attempt a description, but, in the spirit of journalistic duty, I'll give it a shot. Nineteen tarts, pies and concoctions, including an absolutely sinful key lime and white chocolate pie, a deadly flourless chocolate cake, homemade banana ice cream and various sweet, fluffy extravaganzas, drizzled expertly with a homemade raspberry sauce. It was truly astounding...