Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happens to be a friend of Nolan's, a fellow Australian), and by Editor Jesse Birnbaum and Researcher Martha McDowell. To find out what young people these days think of poetry in general, we queried many TIME bureaus and campus correspondents. One of our stringers got into the spirit of things to the point of rewriting our query in verse form ("Poetry in an age of prose,/who knows how it survives?/Who can tell us why/it has so many lives?"). We appreciated the effort, but feel that it leaves Lowell's laurels securely in place...
...flew a replica of the Spirit...
...privacy, though age and a receding hairline have made him almost indistinguishable from other commuters in Darien, Conn., where he has lived in recent years. He has five grown children (three sons, two daughters). Occasionally he appears in Washington's Smithsonian Institution and gazes up at the Spirit of St. Louis, dangling there, fragile but painstakingly guarded against rust and oblivion. He is seldom recognized. Yet any associate or friend who talks to a reporter about him is deprived of the light of his countenance. Typically, he refused to have any part in ceremonies celebrating the 40th anniversary...
This is such stuff as bad dreams are made on; and in Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's new opera Bomarzo, it is appropriately woven into the gripping nightmare of a tortured spirit. Commissioned by the Washington Opera Society and given its world première last week at Washington's Lisner Auditorium, Bomarzo is based on a prizewinning novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events...
...longer significantly Protestant-its membership includes Jews, Catholics and even atheists-its leaders intend to keep the word Christian in the organization's name. The Y.W., says Chicago Assistant Director Lucille Lamkin, is still basically religious, not in any narrow denominational sense but in the spirit of commitment and responsibility. "It is because we are Christian," says she, "that we welcome everybody...