Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that great war, Williams argues, the only cease-fires are the truces of love, in which two people give each other to each other in an affinity of body and spirit. For a brief moment, they are immune to the world's malice, corruption and despair. In a transport of ecstasy, they defy the cruel and inexorable laws of the universe. Inevitably, the war is resumed...
...death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire: a planned hibernation of the spirit in which one evades any commitment to love, hate or passion. Instead of eloquence, the play offers truncated, disjointed sentences. Inertia usurps the role of action; the prevailing mood is torpor. All that Williams seems able to contribute is a little banal philosophizing about how the creation of art saps...
...about the novel," he asks, "when I don't know what a novel is? There are no novels, there are no writers, only individual books." To the suggestion that he is a sensual writer, he asks, "Isn't writing sensual? Isn't it about feeling? The spirit and the body are one. My concern is to capture everything-the pictures, the scene, the detail-exactly...
...Harvard has talent, the what's the problem? Are the players basically complacent, was the team unlucky, does the coach stink, is there a lack of leadership and spirit? It could be that all of these are partial explanations, but it's hard to pin down...
...origin of this spirit may be the lack of financial backing for the lacrosse team. This may sound silly, but when the team can not even afford to have a small banquet at the season's end, it's hard to overcome the feeling that the sport is strictly minor league. More crucial is the fact that funds are necessary to hire another coach or two to help Munro. It is simply impossible for one coach to handle a team of almost 30 players during practice. Two volunteers with considerable ability came down when they could to help, but there...