Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both in repartee and rhetoric, Nixon's pitch to New Hampshiremen was generally more incisive than Romney's cloudy oratory, but occasionally it seemed that they had a common guru. "The real crisis of America today," Nixon declared at one point, "is a crisis of the spirit. What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream." Richard Nixon's personal dream is driving him from a $200,000-a-year New York law practice into what he referred to last week as "the snows of New Hampshire...
Untrammeled Spirit. Wyeth returned to paint Christina Olson many times, cradling a kitten in her arms, or sitting on her porch. He painted her house 50 times, and an upstairs room in it in Wind from the Sea, which shows the curtains billowing as Wyeth once saw them, when a long-closed window was suddenly thrown open. His last portrait, titled Anna Christina, was completed last summer...
Even at that, the President remained cautious about JOBS prospects. "It's better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all," he told reporters. The same spirit pervaded his other major message of the week: an eleven-page civil rights proposal that contained more rhetoric than innovation. Asking for no new legislation, Johnson concentrated on his major civil rights bills submitted but not passed during the last session: fair juries, fair housing, enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything...
...audience at the Loeb last Friday and Saturday got its money's worth. The group is interesting to watch with something sympathetic and appealing about them; they are young, they move well, they perform with confidence and spirit. A few of them, Lisa Nelson and Whittaker Sheppard in particular, give off sparks of a very personalized energy. A few of them, especially wide-eyed Wendy Perron, possess radiant good looks that are nothing if not pleasant to behold. A few of them, like Martha Armstrong, are very funny. Attributes like these can make even a spoiled Loeb audience forget they...
...period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately, is not so much Mann as it is mannered...