Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalizing spirit of the Second Vatican Council has so far had little impact on the status of Roman Catholic priests, who remain firmly under their superiors' thumbs. In November, the Jesuits invoked their society's vow of obedience to send Father Daniel Berrigan out of the country for a while because of his outspoken stand against the Viet Nam war (TIME...
...certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...
...came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many of them...
...feeling about islands is not normal," confesses Author Russell, who was born on an island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric and lisping presence on Midwest territory, whose citizens at first scarcely knew what to make of him, Capote commanded the attention and ultimately the respect of everyone he approached, including the killers. His memory stored scores of interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes...