Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island of the Blue Dolphins, is a labor of love by the same makers, Producer Robert Radnitz and Director James Clark, who keep turning out evidence that a movie can entertain, educate and enlarge the experience of youngsters without driving their parents up the wall. Miguel refreshes the spirit like a week at a mountain camp...
...crises that will deeply involve the U.S. in the years to come. Americans can do much, and are doing much, to help the have-nots through whom Communism hopes to make its advances. But, despite these efforts and despite all the talk about disarmament-to which the American spirit is basically receptive-the hard facts of international life require the U.S. to prepare to sustain indefinitely a large and powerful military machine, and to re-examine it constantly...
...Young World tries to speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...
...written very little (three volumes of verse and three of criticism), but that little he has written with iridescent precision. Like Eliot, he was infected with the century's accidia, sank into morbid pessimism, rose again in religious hope. Unlike Eliot, however, Montale has not trained his spirit to the lattice of traditional theology; his God is a rough diamond hewn from the igneous rock of experience...
...never said it. He was never that far gone that he couldn't knock out the stray book or play-the best of them, such as The Hostage and The Scarperer, being very good indeed, and the worst of them throbbing, at least, with that high, rollicking rebel spirit that made Behan different from other skins. He was indeed a fine doorful of a man, as a friend said of him once, and the sight of him there in it, showing a grin that was all the more devilish for lacking teeth, was ever enough to warm the kindred...