Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff pits a prudish book clerk against a free-living prostitute and injects each round with hilarity as the flesh triumphs over the spirit...
Researchers who worked on the story (Dorothea Bourne, Raissa Silverman and Linda Young) moved through the New York City pattern -with Raissa's evening reflecting the spirit that animated New Yorkers during the blackout. She had invited four friends to dinner at her tenth-floor apartment. When darkness hit, she phoned, advising them not to come, and invited the neighbors, who were drinking coffee in the hallway by candlelight, to come to dinner...
...Dream? The streets were full of happy drunks, but even those who had not touched a drop seemed high?gripped by a crisis-born spirit of camaraderie and exhilaration. In Brooklyn, a meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
Stein wanted to show that Occupied France was very much like Baltimore in the Civil War--families and friends divided in sympathies, but still carrying on together. So she wrote Yes Is for a Very Young Man "in the spirit of the plays I had loved as a child, the plays of the Civil...
...terms of spirit, then, this was a great Fantastique, certainly closer to Berlioz' wild feelings than the sober accounts we usually hear. As impressive as its rare humor was the orchestra's exuberant virtuosity. And Yannatos built some tremendous climaxes, including the finale, which steamed tersely through some sixty measures. This conductor always brings sound, clear logic to his music, fused with a novel, meticulous baton technique. The audience (and perhaps the Orchestra) should watch him more closely...