Word: spirited
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...plot point, something that plausibly carries us to the matter that, in recent years, has most obsessively concerned Philip Roth. Even his most casual readers know him as our only great erotic novelist, a man who spent his early career both hilariously and heartbreakingly exploring the contortions of the spirit that our sexuality imposes on us. Truly, to borrow the title of an earlier Roth novel, he has been our "Professor of Desire." He has done so with a truthfulness to the mess of it - its unseemly secretions and unspoken secrets - that's unprecedented in literature. Now in his seventies...
...Smith dedicates Portrait "to the memory of the Tiwi who have tragically taken their own lives in recent times" - at least 40 since 1998. "Maybe when Tiwi look at this book," she says, "they will connect with the past again a little bit" and recapture some of their old spirit. Pictures of the dead, once banned, may now help Tiwi and their culture embrace life...
...Almost half of the athletes you profiled were American. New Zealand, which has a number of athletes with medal chances, was not mentioned. You would have better served the Olympic spirit by highlighting one outstanding athlete from each member nation of the International Olympic Federation. Bob Howe, Manukau, New Zealand...
...Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, where they'll run and swim and jump their way to some 3,000 medals. Each of them will be searching for gold. Barring that, they'll begrudgingly take silver or bronze. For while outwardly they may profess joy in the spirit of athletic competition, inwardly they all desire the same thing: a hunk of metal around their neck...
...Torres tests positive for steroid use, then certainly, let's all be disappointed and heap derision on her. For now, may we please celebrate her focus, competitive spirit, discipline and willpower? Nancy Johnson, AUSTIN, TEXAS...