Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise...
...told Wicker. "The people want their problems solved, and they don't worry much about whether they are solved at the local, state or federal level." In this respect Evans is a full-fledged apostle of "creative federalism" (TIME ESSAY, May 27), which calls for a fresh spirit of partnership among all levels of Government. A corollary of the theory is what Rockefeller calls "the new federalism," which urges the states and localities to recapture the initiative from Washington, wherever possible, in facing and solving problems...
...When the Viet Cong have nothing to oppose, they will crumble," Nhat Hanh said, "it is because they have monopolized the spirit of nationalism by telling the peasants that the Americans have come to occupy South Vietnam that they are presently supported...
...question "Is this patient dead?" should be answered largely on the basis of his electroencephalogram (EEC or "brain wave") tracings. "Although the heart has been enthroned through the ages as the sacred chalice of life's blood," says Boston's Neurosurgeon Dr. Hannibal Hamlin, "the human spirit is the product of man's brain, not his heart." Yet generally, in legal practice, a pronouncement of death is based only upon the heart's having stopped beating and takes no account of the brain...
Machine as Master. To decide just when the human spirit is gone, just when the intricate machinery should be turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there...