Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree that the best way to improve relations is to improve trade, and lately both countries have been promoting the proposition with a vengeance. Berlin's honored place at last week's 27-nation International Fashion' Festival in Moscow marked a high point in the new spirit of cooperation...
Still, her own age overpraised Charlotte. The real genius turned out to be the reclusive Emily who poured a primitive spirit into Wuthering Heights and wrote a handful of lyrics that rival Blake's. Yet Charlotte's success was balm in her tragic years. In 1848, she buried Branwell; soon after, both Emily and Anne died of consumption. Charlotte fell in love with Arthur Bell Nicholls, the Haworth curate. Her father begged her not to marry because he feared she was too small and frail to sur vive pregnancy. He was right. After a few months of marriage...
...subjects were often religious, but he set them in a provincial milieu: his every window opens onto a Rhine castle, his every Madonna is a Teutonic matron. Knighthood was still in flower -in the ballads of troubadours who wandered from manor house to manor house. E.S. captured the spirit of it; his saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation...
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
Occasionally, the arresting thought of retribution plagues him, as when he sees a thief led to the guillotine or watches an associate shot down before his eyes. But even the disappearance of his closest cronies, who drop out or die one by one, does not subdue his larcenous spirit. Finally, he has everything: riches, an elegant home and the beautiful cousin, who rejoins him to share his life. He still cannot quit. In the camera's last view he has completed his heist, and is sitting on a train with satchels full of loot. Before the viewer...