Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCANN LTD. LIVE AT SHELLY'S MANNE HOLE (Limelight). Infusing this album is that welcome but all-too-infrequent spirit -humor. McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
CARROLL CLOAR, a Southern painter who never studied painting, aptly describes the budding spirit of the young artist: "At first it was only cowboys, then it was baseball and football players. Finally I drew a cowgirl...
Norman is an inviting patsy. "I sign check after check," he says, to "achieve a nirvana in which I don't have to look at anything I don't wish to." Con men and con women bilk him of a fortune and enclose his spirit brick by brick behind a wall of paranoia. A male model and his wife, whom he hires to smooth his way in New York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into...
...spur the nation, Mao clearly wants to re-create the spirit of Yenan, where he and his followers in the 1930s holed up in caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...half of them, however, make nervy experiments in fictional form, and almost all show the kind of ultimate concern with human beings that is no less religious because it calls itself existential. In almost every instance, the writers courageously explore the shape of a new fiction in form and spirit adequate...