Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mold of middle-age with newness, the beautiful people frug frenetically, bounce in and out of underground movies, wear mod clothing, and buy pop art. But they aren't hip. Above all, they aren't hip. They may posses all the equipment but they can't buy the spirit--that Frodo Baggins--Emmett Grogan quality described in the March issue of Ramparts, that spontaneity and excitement which should accompany granny print shirts and paisley pants...
...unswerving premises of Friendship and Fratricide, for all the author's talk of "the spirit of free inquiry," is that Hiss was innocent. By assuming rather than substantiating this, Zeligs places his analysis within an unconvincing and circular logical structure, which in turn calls otherwise well-argued propositions into question. The book fails as a whole because its often compelling psychoanalysis is so clearly founded on clumsily linked, improperly evaluated facts...
...hiring him. Partly supported by his aged father, who still tends bees and olive trees in Crete, Georgakakis goes on struggling in Athens, studying tape-recorded legislation, handling a few minor cases sent to him by friends, and hunting the bigger, elusive job that would vindicate his efforts. His spirit is waning. "My dream has been to become a productive unit of society," he says. "What...
...cast, make Wilson's vision plausible. In his play, the milieu is really the message. Something in the U.S. heartland's culture itself seems to stifle his characters' heartbeats whenever they try to make an openhanded gesture of the flesh, the mind or the spirit. Wilson's Rimers are indeed what their collective name implies: a people who blanket their lives with hoarfrost...
...himself has been cut from this movie, and his sometime antagonist, steely-eyed Sir Denis Nayland Smith, reduced to an Adams House sophomore with identity hang-ups, but it is to Hunter's glory that something of the spirit of the Asiatic fiend lingers...