Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historian, Miller tried to describ and explain the national spirit of the United States. His analysis of this spirit began with the Puritans, and he became famous for destroying the traditional conception of the Puritans as narrow-minded hypocrites. His books on early New England include Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933). The New England Mind (1939), Jonathan Edwards (1949), and Roger Williams...
...received the Pulitzer award in biography for his book, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. In his preface, he called the work a "personal memoir by one who served in the White House during the Kennedy yars." It was praised by reviewers for conveying the spirit of the New Frontier...
...difficult to maintain that the Loeb has done any of these things for Harvard theatre or Harvard students. The spirit, the amatcurism, and the educational value, such as it is, preceded the Loeb and have not been greatly enriched by it. Ambitious attempts at combining drama with other art forms--unusual music, or original sets--have been notable for their absence from Sixty-four Brattle Street. As for the repertory of plays, Seltzer lists three kinds of plays a university ought to perform: "chestnuts," rarely produced classical plays, and very new plays. The Loeb's recent seasons have been heavily...
Strangely, the spirit of experiment--which Seltzer considers one of the undergraduate theatre's greatest potential advantages--scarcely exists on the Loeb main stage. Babe's article suggests several reasons why this...
...this distorted ambiance, the words that once sheltered Spindrift shelter him no more. To his gathering surprise, the world that exists behind the word is a far more rewarding place. His liberated spirit plunges into the joys of stealing library books, winning a baldheaded contest and resurrecting his libido...