Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTERBURY TALES. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales are told in this musical import from London. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing. Sex is treated as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. De-Mille devotional epic...
...train rumbled through Appalachian passes, it would cross decades of U.S. expansion as well?the scarred hills of West Virginia, the black earth of Illinois, the railroad yards of St. Louis and Kansas City. When it reached the prairies of Abilene, it would arrive in another era. In spirit, if not in time, the contemporary chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center where he will be buried was not so distant from the Abilene he knew as a youth...
...down an ultimatum to the Western allies to get out of Berlin. To resolve the issue, Eisenhower initiated a venture in personal diplomacy. Khrushchev came to the U.S., and during talks in the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American U-2 spy plane. Not only was the conference canceled; Ike's planned trip to Russia was vetoed as well, a personal humiliation. The uncertain...
...factual background on each school varies from irrelevant to misleading. Two-thirds of the first page on Penn talks about a new swimming pool. Dartmouth is most famous for its computer (after its team spirit, of course) and secondly famous because "even classrooms are left unlocked after hours to allow extra study space for students who want an entire room, complete with blackboards, chalk, and 20 empty desks, to study in." Only after six pages of computer sketches of Snoopy and praise for the Dartmouth campus--traditional Ivy Covered in rural New England setting--do the authors drop Dartmouth...
Hair--A hippie "Hellzapoppin" with a lot of spirit and a nice score firmly based in the vocabulary of early rock. Only when the authors try too hard to explain to our parents what the new culture is all about do things become a little thick. Tom O'Horgan is the director, and the nice cast includes Barry McGuire and the nice Heather MacRae. At the BILTMORE, W. 47th...