Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have to confront the problems of sexuality. For some, sex was indeed a problem, and many of those who left St. Mary's have since married. But Lemercier believes that the ones who stayed came out of the therapy sessions with purified faith, a new creativity of spirit, and improved physical health. He also believes that they have chosen to sublimate their sexual feelings to become "eunuchs for God" out of genuine spiritual conviction rather than fear...
...swirling storm of dancers who flashed dreamlike through the "unknown landscape of the mind." Though she moved with a quiet, serene grace, age seemed to have made its impression; her dancing carried more suggestion than statement. But if the body was a little unwilling, the flame of the spirit still glowed...
...whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle...
...Hand. Czechoslovakia's Jiří Trnka is the Chagall of cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...
Yevtushenko has been applauded in the West as a free anarchic spirit against Stalinism. But sometimes, when he dreams of "Hindus in machine-gun wagons/ And Peruvians in helmets and sheepskin jerkins," or when he visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please...