Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro colleges. At Morehouse, King worked with the city's Intercollegiate Council, an integrated group, and learned a valuable lesson. "I was ready to resent all the white race," he says. "As I got to see more of white people, my resentment was softened, and a spirit of cooperation took its place. But I never felt like a spectator in the racial problem. I wanted to be involved in the very heart...
...Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, Hegel (whose progress-through-pain theories are still prominent in King's thinking). Above all, he read and reread everything he could find about India's Gandhi. "Even now," says King, "in reading Gandhi's words again, I am given inspiration. The spirit of passive resistance came to me from the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The techniques of execution came from Gandhi...
...illuminate Annie's redoubtable spirit, The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson, focused only on the first few weeks of her life at the Kellers' home in 1887. Helen was not far from being a willful little animal because no way had been found to bring her into meaningful association with others. As Helen, eleven-year-old Patty McCormack brought to the play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused...
...Pure Spirit. Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...
...other hand, the Brattle labors under tremendous handicaps, of which its size, the lack of public spirit among the motion picture companies, and nitrate film are perhaps the biggest. Because it seats only about 350 people, the Brattle cannot afford to pay the prices asked by distributors of some of the major foreign films, which these days are almost as costly as the first-run Hollywood products. Most such distributors would rather hold the film for years in the hope that it will be bought by one of the big Boston art theatres, which can offer a hundred times...