Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train Soviet youth in a high feeling of patriotism...
...Buenos Aires cafe: "We have won, sovereignty is saved" (i.e., the treaty was out). Now he rose in the Senate to ready the majority decision on Chapultepec: "When we are asked if we want this to be a free and independent nation, we cry full of the holy spirit of justice, unanimously and spontaneously yes, for the independence of the Argentine nations." The nationalist gallery clapped thunderously...
...strawberry blonde, sun bleached and wiry. Principally because of her green eyes she seems to have a ready-to-pounce, feline quality. A straightening of her shoulders is a characteristic mannerism-a squaring away that seems to symbolize in an otherwise relaxed girl, a won't-be-beat spirit...
Congenial Atmosphere. Before publication of the Advocate's editorial, the Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly, took a strikingly similar position: "There is a strong sentiment among Protestants ... for joint action with Catholics on world problems. . . . It is up to Catholics to accept such gestures in the spirit in which they are offered: to greet them in all sincerity and without suspicion...
...most intimate friends work against each other, man and wife deceive each other . . , the spirit becomes bestial . . . snakes crawl through the town . . . horses and cattle begin to talk...