Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hungry, underdeveloped Red China, the uncompromising letter and spirit of crusading Leninism dovetail neatly with economic necessity and Peking's dreams of reasserting its ancient hegemony over Asia. The threat to peace lies between the extremes, between Russia's evolutionary progress and China's hard adherence to a fundamentalist philosophy. In the struggle for power and legitimacy throughout the Communist world, Moscow and Peking could in time be locked in a bitter internecine contest to re-establish the gospel of Lenin in all its belligerent purity. In appeal and purpose, Communism today is unquestionably a failing creed...
...sheer ebullience of that cry, tinged as it was with eagerness and naivete, was both sad and stirring. As the 101st's former commander-Ambassador Maxwell Taylor-was quick to point out, it will take far more than fighting spirit for the U.S. to succeed in Viet Nam. Hovering over the bay in a helicopter prior to his final departure for Washington, Taylor watched his old outfit land, then issued a soldierly warning. The Communist Viet Cong, he said, is "an enemy who is shrewd, well-trained, and with the guile of the American Indian during his best days...
...conference debut at Berkeley, Heyns indicated that he has no use for student demonstrations-but does have quiet sympathy for student problems. He called the riots "frankly, a very uncongenial way for a university to conduct itself," adding: "The academic man moves more quietly, motivated by reason and the spirit of inquiry. Civil disobedience is really a breach of academic manners." But in an interview at Michigan he also noted: "If procedures and mechanisms for adjusting grievances aren't trusted by students and faculty, we have to improve them. If student groups feel that the only...
...objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer he has never seen before, for no reason except to be in the spirit of his century. Then, acting under no apparent desire or compulsion, he seduces his mother. Much later, a large chandelier falls and kills several characters...
...Schumann, which opened the program, has difficult passages for rhythmic ensemble and intonetion. But the quartet maintained excellent balance and infused the work with a vital spirit that is rarely heard. Even the third movement, which has some rather un-string quartetish passages, worked well in their hands...