Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called up, was so angry that he wrote an open letter to the President and Congress. "Never have I seen human resources so tragically misallocated," he declared. "Never have I experienced conditions so calculated to destroy the human spirit...
...university into an academic hermitage. But more than an ocean and a language separate the French university student and his counterpart in the U.S. The two can hardly be measured on the same scale. French higher education, reports TIME Correspondent Judson Gooding, is an ordeal of body and spirit that has changed little over the centuries. It is still almost as harshly competitive an environment as it was in the 13th century, when Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne, compared examinations in his college to the Last Judgment, and contended that the men who graded them were "much more...
Apprentice Intellectuals. Thus it was no surprise that this spring's revolt first erupted on the new suburban University campus of Nanterre, seven miles northwest of Paris. There, 12,000 students were able to develop the spirit of solidarity that is vital to revolution. Nor was it surprising that Nanterre's enrages (furious ones), as they soon came to be called, were bothered less by their physical than by their academic hardships. As apprentice intellectuals in a country dominated by intellectual tradition, they were deeply dismayed by the content and direction of their stud ies. And by extension...
Appearing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, the company opened with two plays that are blithe of spirit and scant of substance: Planchon's adaptation of Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Moliere's George Dandin. Musketeers is a nightlong spoof of the romantic spirit. The production presents Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan as meddlesome buffoons, a quartet of Gallic Ritz Brothers. In one sequence, neon-lit ropes arc the stage like tracer bullets while the cast ruefully announces that it has lost the threads of the plot...
...leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state of an artistic spirit...