Word: spirits
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Spirit was always good for Harvard football games," she adds. "You scrambled to get tickets. Even if we were losing...
...whatever the reason behind the lack of school spirit, many Class of '75 alums say that today's students only hurt themselves by failing to back their teams more...
Twenty-one nations went to Paris to attend a peace conference with the intention of easing approaching Cold War tensions. But with little cooperative spirit between the powers, the conference was futile...
...siecle was also a great time for painters whose displaced religious yearnings and hunger for allegory induced them to do mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took...
...realize that they are onto something about all of us, something that has to do with the need to persevere in roles that give us pleasure, at whatever cost to our dignity. The flesh may be weak here--to say nothing of creased, puckered and pooched--but the spirit is all too willing...