Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back from a successful Florida trip with a new spirit of "togetherness," the varsity track squad has the potential and the depth to make its followers forget about the dismal winter season just ended. The team returned from the South with a surprisingly large number of new-found assets and its smallest injury list since last December...
Romney keeps his athletic frame (5 ft. 11 in., 175 lbs.) in top shape ("Our body is the temple of our spirit"), plays competitive sports with his two sons, Mitt, 12, and Scott, 17 (his two daughters are married ). The Romneys live in a $150,000 modern Swiss-chalet house (with a waterfall in back) that he built last year in fashionable Bloomfield Hills. (When he invited the auto industry brass for a housewarming, one G.M. wife remarked dryly: "George, you've bought yourself quite a gas guzzler.") He begins his day at 5 a.m., uses the first daylight...
...Berlin and the unification of Germany. The leaders of East and West had last met at the summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more harm than good. In 1959 the U.S. moves toward the summit with more modest hopes. The chances of any harm's being done are therefore correspondingly less-for as long as the free world stands firm on first principles...
...exception all those persons who collaborated with my government." Such a roster, as everyone knew, would include several Senators, and the five members of an army junta that replaced Rojas and now live in honored retirement. His wealth? Ah, said Rojas, there were a few "presents," received in the spirit given, "whether it was a herd of cows from ranchers of the Ilanos, or a little duck from an unhappy old woman...
Whatever truth there may be in such explanations, the fantasies of the television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter...