Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birds still warble sweet in the springtime, and the Byrds still control the roosts of power in Virginia: a U.S. Senate seat and the Statehouse. But ornithological and oligarchical verities apart, little else of the old order is immune from the spirit of regeneration that has engulfed the state...
...composer, Milhaud deserves to be represented in our concert only by his best work," Torkanowsky said in a public statement. "We do not propose to present him at what might be his worst." Furthermore, he said, the new work "would be a disappointment to the audience and to the spirit of the 250th anniversary...
...Pacific, York has been backed by a number of local churches in operating a "free church" that ministers to Berke ley hippies. When the time came for York's ordination, Episcopal officials invited his flower-power friends to participate, and modified the stately services to accommodate the spirit of the occasion. St. Mark's was decked out with gas-filled balloons and banners, children wandered along the aisles at will, and the sermon by the Rev. John Pairman Brown was entitled "God Is Doing His Thing." When the congregation was invited to "donate something which has meaning...
...Beany (Marco St. John), a free spirit who sponges on Daddy for the cost of living. Beany is a dove on Viet Nam, and he has brought home a Negro sweetie (Carol Cole) to wed. In short, the boy is a one-man international drawing-room crisis. Vidal's cute switch ploy on the miscegenation problem is to present the girl's parents as prim, upper-middle-class social conservatives who are adamantly opposed to an interracial match. They dread what their Westchester County neighbors might say, and cringe at the notoriety of having their daughter...
...sooty slum aura that marks much of Poor Cow (TIME, Feb. 9), and with good reason. Both films were adapted from books by Novelist Nell Dunn. Though the story too often has the quality of pulpy sociology, Junction is saved from indistinction by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and by Suzy Kendall's chameleonlike ability to look and sound like ten different women in the course of a single film...