Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Ong Tao, the Spirit of the Hearth, returns home each year after his call on the Heavenly Jade Emperor, all Viet Nam takes a holiday from war and erupts in the festival of Tet to welcome the Lunar New Year. It is a time of dancing and dragon masks, of firecrackers rigged from snail shells and gunpowder, of feasting on roast pork and sugared apricots. It is also a time of homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet...
...Indoor track fans usually have to be satisfied with style and spirit instead of statistics. Performances rarely match those outdoors, partly because few trackmen are in top form during the winter, partly because some events are a whole lot harder indoors. The world record for the mile is 3 min. 51.3 sec. outdoors but 5.1 sec. slower indoors. The board tracks are slower and slipperier than outdoors and smaller, too, with eleven laps to the mile instead of four, 22 turns instead of eight. The indoor long-jump record is 27 ft., compared with 27 ft. 4¾ in. outdoors...
...Spirit of Capitalism...
...master spirit of this society is the convict Harcamone, in solitary confinement, awaiting the guillotine. The execution, described by an inmate as "making two of 'Pretty Boy,' " dominates the book. Harcamone is in everybody's mind, and he is the principal figure in the homosexual love fantasies of the narrator. Much of the force of Miracle of the Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like...
...relationship of the university to the institute, defended it last week in his annual report to the Board of Overseers. He explained that the public-administration school had been renamed "to honor an especially illustrious alumnus and public figure whose career had evoked hope and a lifting of spirit in idealistic young people in all quarters of the globe...