Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Existentialism, the European theater, an American complacency all came in for discussion in Williams' address. He declared that existentialism is nothing new, but that what is important is "that a whole continent could be jolted into grasping such a philosophy. The European theater has shown a hunger and a spirit that is lacking on the American stage," Williams concluded...
...Andrei Zhdanov had called for ideological as well as political resistance to the U.S. Last week the French Communist paper L'Humanité took it from there. Introducing a special anti-American cultural section to run Wednesdays and Fridays, L'Humanité cried: "America degrades the spirit." It got down to cases...
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan (and brother Masahito and three sisters) gave a farewell tea for some 40 young princes and princesses. It was a farewell because of the new, democratic spirit: hereafter hosts and guests would not be on equal footing, since the guests were all becoming commoners...
...Evidence. Step by step, the committee had weighed the evidence. First of all, Horn's transcript was suspiciously complete to have been copied from diaries he had described as "moth-eaten" and partly illegible. The papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said...
...fighting against time to eradicate a life time's habits of thought and feeling, and set himself in order and acquire a history. . . . To the eye of nature, he was too late. As he spoke, the bird stooped and struck. But, to the eye of the spirit, we are entitled to believe he was in time - for, though the spirit needs time, an instant of it is enough...