Word: spiritedness
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The words belong to Paul Booth, a former Army officer fragged by one of his own men in Viet Nam. He is mean-spirited and abusive. His wife Liz is an asthmatic heiress whose money is tied up in a complex trust fund. She is also the captive audience of...
Like most of Bellow's novels, Herzog was in essence Bellow's story: woman-crowded, it reflected his fractious marital and personal history. He married five times, engaged in spirited, sometimes acrimonious quarrels with his three sons, lovers, other writers, old friends. In order to write, he claimed, he needed...
This semester, I happened upon Braunstein eating a meal with a large group of people I didn’t know. They were mostly skinny males, and they were all members of HRSFA (pronounced “hurs-fa”). When I told them I was a reporter, Braunstein?...
Although set in the '20s, this is the '60s film par excellence. Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) both love the free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), who bunks with each of them. Unofficially remade dozens of times (most recently by Bernardo Bertolucci as The Dreamers), Franois Truffaut's...
You can’t simply blame it on an Ivy League mentality—as the twins case study showed, even Yalies are more spirited.