Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vacuum that Spain's Catholic Church had long neglected: the lack of a means for developing an aggressive, dedicated, militant laity. Escrivá wanted to create, much as Ignatius Loyola had done with his Society of Jesus in the 16th century, spiritual shock troops to rekindle the true spirit of Christianity within the church. But instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man would pledge...
...will produce the answer that this is the worst of all possible worlds. And just as Aldous Huxley spoke of "murderee" types, Malcolm is a corruptee-he invites corruption. He is dumb, passive and available, and he lacks all strength of purity. The healthy organism rejects disease; the pure spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked out by grotesque female vultures, the ritual is overly familiar and more than a bit of a drag. Lolling in this effete bordello of his imagination, Albee achieved his first quick flop (seven...
...Klan or the John Birch Society or the White Citizens Council spoken against Federal policy he would have been cheered." Punishing Bond for exercising his right to speak out on U.S. foreign policy or to admire the courage of anyone for any reason does indeed violate the letter and spirit of the Constitution...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...
Against this backdrop moves the spirit apostrophized in Perry's diary: "What is life? . . . It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." For Capote, the movements in the shadows that produced the lightning tragedy of the Clutter murder are the tremors of a nation. Smith and Hickock are neither judged for what they did, nor vulgarly presented as anti-heroes. With courageous and incisive honesty Capote focuses on the dynamics of the two personalities, but never lets the tensions and momentum of the killers' relationship obscure the outward drama their characters...