Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sincerest congratulations on your article about Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept. 27] and the plight of Russia's present generation of outstanding authors. Even under the most onerous of conditions the human spirit is capable of producing artistic works of outstanding merit. I hope that articles such as this one will help alert Westerners to the current deplorable situation in the U.S S R. and give a better understanding of the indomitable Russian spirit...
...former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at the dock out back is a 35-ft. ketch, Aisling (Gaelic for dream spirit), on which the Rowans spend most weekends. "These signs of success," Rowan says, "are nice things, appreciated and prized. But you know, more important and more rewarding than any of these things is doing your own thing and having other people say, 'Yeah, baby! Go! Get it on! Hey, that...
Five years ago, such mildly risque lines would have been scissored by the censors. But today, a new try-anything spirit is upon the TV industry. The Smothers Brothers put the first dents in the censorship barrier early last season. Then Laugh-In crashed through and went about as far as it could go without being arrested. By the standards of movies, books, theater, or even late-night TV talk shows, Laugh-In's new blue cheer is decidedly inoffensive. Still, the program is only half kidding when it announces: "NBC brings you Laugh-In in a plain brown...
Boycotted in Chicago. At least one thing can be said for the cover. It suits the spirit of the music inside. The album bristles with the brand of hard, raunchy rock that has helped to establish the Stones as England's most subversive roisterers since Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist.* It also stands in notable contrast to their previous album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, which ventured into the realm of electronic wizardry and psychedelic fantasy charted by the Beatles in Sgt. Pepper. Since that was an alien idiom for the Stones, they sounded pretentious and boring...