Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixture of regimentation, brutality and neglect. It seems less rigid than Chinese-style mobilization, mixing lip service to lofty mottoes with inefficient bureaucracy and shrugging apathy. The people don't get-along with the imported Chinese technicians, displaying, according to Ho, "a lack of responsibility and a poor spirit of internationalism...
...character she plays is a woman torn by powerful emotions, but, although a sensitive performer, the leading lady seems unable to express strong feelings of any kind. She is too cool; and so is the picture. She has the presence of the sprite, not the presence of the spirit. Calm and exquisite in her habit, she looks most of the time like nothing more troubled or troubling than (if such a thing were possible) a recruiting poster for a convent...
...prison, tortured him for five months until he signed a confession of plotting against Russia. Released in the thaw of 1956, Kovacs joined Imre Nagy's short-lived, Communist-defying government, survived its collapse when Russian tanks blotted out the revolution, but was too broken in body and spirit to defy the Communists any longer...
...Nations, but it is Elizabeth's ennobling and historically new role to be the single human figure in the great association that symbolizes and inspires its unity and continuity. Calmly seeing her duty, she has pledged herself to a Commonwealth "built on the highest qualities of the spirit of man: friendship, loyalty, and the desire for freedom and peace. To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races I shall give myself heart and soul every day of my life...
With imperturbable mien, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov last week told Washington newsmen that he hoped the American press would treat Russia's national exhibition in the New York Coliseum this summer with "a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation." While the ambassador was making his pitch for fair play-which he would have got from the bulk of U.S. journalists without asking-the Soviet press was whipping up its severest attack since the Stalin era on life in the U.S. The new campaign was obviously the Soviet welcome to the six-week, $5,000,000 American National Exhibition...