Word: spirit
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...list as miserly and pretentious as the spirit that drew it up. Indeed, working through A Writer's People is rather like listening to the postprandial monologue of a cantankerous old guest at a literary dinner. One is at first amused by all the iconoclasm: After all, why should the reputations of Powell or Chaudhuri matter these days? One then begins to demur: Is Philip Larkin really a "minor" poet? Is the Caribbean really a place of "spiritual emptiness"? Finally one balks completely - at Naipaul's tiresome insistence on referring to the black population of Trinidad as "Negroes," for example...
...think they add something unique to the music community on campus for both performers and audiences.”BEST DAYS AHEAD?Despite nearing the age of 80 and having conducted the HRO for more than 40 years, Yannatos continues to be a vital presence and the guiding spirit of the orchestra. In a recent rehearsal, the spry Yannatos carefully guided the orchestra from the hushed and tense ending of the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony into the explosive and majestic opening of the final movement.Despite the fact that only half of the orchestra was present...
...forecasting purposes, in good Halloween spirit, there are two tricks and two treats on the docket this weekend. Barring a major upset, Harvard and Yale will have opened up a two-game cushion over the rest of the field by Saturday evening. The last time the archrivals both began the season with 4-0 records in the Ivies was 1974, when the two schools split the title...
...concerning the forces of creation, artistic and otherwise. He bases much of his thought in that of deep ecology, a philosophy which holds that everyone must achieve a “participatory and relational consciousness of a more than human world.” It is in this unconventional spirit that he claims to have encountered 62 other senses—such as heliotropism—outside of the widely accepted 5. Berensohn’s morning session consisted of a “Pebble Ritual,” during which each participant was given a handful...
...course, on the other hand, many Asians also fail to fit a purely assimilationist model. The Chinatowns, Koreatowns and Japantowns that have sprung up in major cities nationwide attest to the spirit of ethnic cohesion and preservation, especially among the most recent arrivals who want to reside close to people of similar backgrounds. Asian soft culture is even infiltrating the American fabric in turn, one greasy Chinese take-out restaurant at a time. However, ethnic enclaves and organizations do not explain why white, American culture has quite so much influence in shaping the values and thoughts of subsequent Asian immigration...