Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-color TIME was conceived by Cover Artist Aaron Bohrod, who made the logotype an integral part of the cover painting, and hung from it some of the symbols that he often uses to give added dimension to his work.* Bohrod's bright, tuneful "Music Man" conveys the spirit of Broadway's biggest hit, which is sending audiences away marching and laughing and singing. See THEATER, Pied Piper of Broadway...
...edge of his hospital bed. Said Mme. Chiang with a smile: "Well, you always talked too much anyway. I want to do the talking this time." And she added a final word to the old Flying Tiger that was applicable to them both. "You have that wonderful fighting spirit," she said. "You were never defeated-certainly not by the Japanese...
...rehearsals, where Menuhin turned up in cinnamon-colored shorts, the full spirit of dedication remained. "Bravo for the pizzicato!" Casals would cry, while through the door peered the Casals cultists: thick-spectacled German music masters, a pony tail from Paris, a pair of combs from Catalonia, a Fulbright scholar, a darkly gowned queen (Elisabeth of Belgium)-all hushed to silence in the presence of the eternal creative mystery...
Fallible Device. Soon, in his one-man campaign to stamp out mental health, Horner seizes on his fellow teacher Joe Morgan, the energetic pragmatist. Morgan's wife Rennie is a kindred empty spirit. Says Horner of her: "She had peered deeply into herself and had found nothing." Rennie herself seems to agree. Of her life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after...
Gruesome in spirit, comic in detail, this triangle is doomed to ruin by Joe Morgan's philosophical code. He is stuck with the arid belief that his "values" are valuable simply because he believes in them, while his mad friend does not care what values he upholds; in fact, he has none. Joe talks everyone to death in the interests of honesty, and the spirit of togetherness is symbolized by the fact that husband and lover are made aware that they both use the same brand of contraceptive...