Word: spirit
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...Magor, the 62-year-old untamed free spirit, is the star of the night. After his speech, a gang of four guys roar with laughter. "Magor was great!" crows a former interior minister in their midst...
...current events that it would have been easy to make. Then there's the Ken Loach problem. He is a mild-mannered English leftist who has been for years making earnest, naturalistic, rather conventionally mounted studies about working-class topics that do not make the cinephile's aesthete spirit leap in anticipation. He's the kind of guy who turns down decorations from the Queen because he loathes the evil - or at least twitish - company he would have to keep on her honor's list. Put it simply: Almodovar...
Princeton's Pagels and Harvard's King try to decipher the document. Why reward Judas? Because Jesus' death helps prove what the Gospel writer thought was Christ's real message: that his--and our--true essence is not flesh but immortal spirit. And the text bad-mouths other disciples as an indirect way of attacking 2nd century Christian bishops who encouraged believers to be martyrs...
...Winehouse may not be Aretha, singing about the eternal spirit in the dark, but she’s a hell of a spectacle. She is the train wreck of the moment. And she’s entertaining, for now, because who doesn’t love a good train wreck...
...least mentally. We owe it to ourselves to be honest about what we desire, what we need, and the personal necessities of which we cannot yet conceive. It is my belief that the inaugural Women’s Week was meant to capture some of this imaginative, open spirit. Both the Harvard College Women’s Center and the Seneca, Inc. aim to improve the experience of undergraduate women at Harvard; as such, the week of events was largely intended to illuminate the issues and challenges faced by women, to engage people in controversial debates, and further, to connect...