Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relation to the physical or chronological age of a man's body. Unlike the Buddhists, the Hindus attempted to order society on this principle through a rigid hierarchy of hereditary classes. A youngster of the Brahman class -- on top of the social ladder -- was therefore older, in spirit, than an aged man of a lower class. In theory, an intellectual and spiritual aristocracy ruled Hindu society...
...picture, he remarked that the handsome youth in the foreground suggested a portrait of the artist as a young man. "Something of that might have slipped in," Vickrey allowed. As for our word portrait, it includes more faces, more facets, and greater complexities. It includes, we hope, the varied spirit of a generation that is anything but faceless. And we also hope that our men-and women-of the year will recognize themselves...
...which the Applebys adhere, and the rhythm method, to whose uncertain discipline they reluctantly submit, allow no such latitude. Their first child arrived nine months after the wedding, followed, at similar intervals, by two more. And now, dabbing queasily at the breakfast bacon, Adam's wife congeals his spirit with the announcement that they may have lost another round of Vatican Roulette...
...trouble with this "modern Catholic novel" by Britain's David Lodge, is that its antic spirit, though rich, is also overbearing. Like a TV situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next...
...slogan ringing through Bangkok's National Stadium last week proclaimed "The Spirit of Brotherhood" as 2,300 athletes from 18 nations met for the fifth Asian Games. Spirit there was. But brotherhood? Oh, brother...