Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first method would have depended for conference on perfect timing. The characters would have had to establish, by pause and gesture alone, a basic emotional rhythm. The surface chatter would have served as ironical counterpoint. The blend would have caught the spirit of the play perfectly...
...year will spend $10 million on new tricks and techniques-three times as much money as was spent on psywar a year ago. The mark of Zorro was evident last week in the village of Phung Hiep, a district capital in the Mekong Delta where a South Vietnamese "rural spirit" drama troupe was busy maligning Red China and Ho Chi Minh. In between propaganda skits, the troupe sang classical Vietnamese ballads, and played boogie-woogie...
...Macbeth returns from murdering the King, Lady Macbeth must pry his clenched fingers off the bloody spear--and it is with such moments that Kurosawa shows the eloquence of simple action. The classic scenes and images neither fall flat nor stick out as irrelevant set-pieces. The haggish forest spirit who replaces the Weird Sisters is as eery as they, with her boomy, slowed-down voice. Macduff's advancing army, seen through Fuji's mists, really does seem like a forest on the march...
...secular culture and has been either neutralized by overexposure or rejected entirely. Thus, he declares, God is dead, and will remain so until the church becomes secular enough in structure and thought to proclaim him anew in ways that will fulfill the cultural needs of the times. Since the spirit of the times is irretrievably secular-with all notions of transcendence and otherworldliness rejected-Vahanian in his current study is working toward a historical explanation of how secularization came about...
Bernard Berenson speaking. The world remembers him as the century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting; his friends have long insisted that he was also a master of the never-quite-lost art of conversation. He called it "the game of the spirit," and until his death in 1959, at the age of 94, he played the game in the grand manner with a happy few who were invited to I Tatti, his palatial villa in the hills above Florence...