Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEATER On Broadway MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Hoibrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. As penetrating in spirit as it is physically uncanny, this performance is an extraordinary dramatic re-creation of one of Americana's keenest humorists...
...Although the Fifth Amendment bars the use of any confession that police extract by even the most subtle threats or promises, and though no American need answer a single police question, those facts are generally unknown to the vast majority of arrested Americans-the poor in pocket, mind or spirit. For the Fifth Amendment does not automatically command police to inform anyone of his rights; the suspect himself must know those rights in order to exercise them. Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, interrogation...
...from Rome to squire Jackie about Seville. Piling her into a car with two other guests of the Albas, Garrigues even managed to take Jackie on an incognita tour of the city, stopping off to visit the cathedral and the Alcázar without being recognized. Swinging into the spirit of the feria, Jackie donned the traditional comb and mantilla to accompany Garrigues to her second bullfight...
Into this setting come volunteers from ACCION (Americans for Community Action in Other Countries), a sort of private Peace Corps. Their primary job is to develop a community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than...
...same unique informal spirit pervaded the folk concert Wednesday night in Quincy. Although the program was being taped for WHRB rebroacast, students and their dates sat in chairs and on tables around the crowded dining hall...