Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishment's tame writers once charged, are "more dangerous for us than those of Pasternak. Pasternak was a man detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined." In a time of unprecedented dissent in Russia, Solzhenitsyn stands at the moral center of the movement to cleanse Russia of the spirit of Stalinism. His role is symbolic, since he himself is not an activist but a loner, aloof except where his own works are involved. But he understands as well as any of Russia's great writer-dissenters of the past what he is about. He could be speaking of himself...
...anyone is more superstitious these days than the supposedly no-nonsense men who fly huge jetliners at multimile altitudes. Aviators frequently cross unused seat belts prior to takeoff, or spit on a wheel after their preflight inspection-thus indulging the old belief that saliva is an offering of the spirit to the gods. Some auto racers don't like peanuts or women in their pits. In keeping with the belief that new machines cause sterility, U.S. servicemen blithely took sexual advantage of British girl radar operators in World War II. A similar male myth has it that airline hostesses...
Punch Instead of Punditry. The spirit behind the Observer's revival is its latest editor, Greg Olds, 33. A hulking (6 ft. 2 in.) University of Texas journalism graduate, Olds moved into the top slot two years ago after an uneventful career on several other small Texas papers. Unsure of himself at first, he shunned controversy and even ignored a tip about the McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state...
...banshee is a female Celtic spirit "a kind of half-witch," Mrs. Dunn explained to one student. The boy, a sophomore who was clearly a bit astounded by his first Sunday in a Harvard House, sighed and remarked, "It sure feels good to get rid of them...
...winning party control last spring. By the time McCarthy himself comes up for re-election in November, 1970, the party should be under the control of liberal militant forces allied with the senior senator. Because of McCarthy's distain for party politics, the new leadership--while with him in spirit--can hardly be considered a personal organization. While the campaign continues this fall, the New Democratic Coalition (the McCarthy forces) are organizing themselves again in each congressional district. With strong control already in Minneapolis-St. Paul (about one third of the state), they are moving to take over out-state...