Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure whom most Westerners-and not a few Indians-find hard to understand. An outwardly placid man, Desai devoutly copies all the personal habits of Mahatma Gandhi. He is a vegetarian, fasts 36 hours every week, generally drinks nothing but water-although at a party, to get into the spirit of things, he will sometimes take coconut milk. His views on sexual continence are so rigid that he once boasted that he had not had relations with his wife for 20 years. Almost alone among India's leading politicians, he has never traveled abroad. Chief reason: he is opposed...
...indeed a great man and President, and it makes me sick to see the pussyfooting that has been going on with our present President. Where is that drive and spirit T.R. was the epitome of? Most of all, where is that decisiveness...
...DOING WHAT THIS COMMISSION HAS MOST WANTED TO SEE DONE: TO MAKE THIS GREAT AMERICAN'S SPIRIT AND EXAMPLE AGAIN A FACTOR IN AMERICAN LIFE...
...height of his fame, poor Jonas poses for a portrait of the artist at work, but he himself no longer has the time or spirit to paint. Cognac consoles him with the illusion of creativity, and girls with the illusion of vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is swift, sure and touching. Dying, he scribbles one word on a blank canvas, but no one can be sure "whether it should be read solitary or solidary" (i.e., at one with society). Moral: wooing the Muse is not half so important, or difficult, as staying married...
...British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved by Churchill's brief epilogue to Gettysburg: "When that morning came, Lee, after...