Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Dylan Thomas, privately the spirit of extravagance, there might have been expected at least one big, rich, interesting failure; the Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters...
...China. The U.S. has successfully fended off the coexistence gambit in many a deceptive form-including siren calls to one more summit conference. But last week it hardly knew what to do when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...
...Gaulle's Fifth Republic, Frenchmen could see much undone, but also much under way. And one thing deserved a cheer. "For the first time in our history," said René Coty in his farewell speech, "a revolution, a necessary and constructive revolution, has been carried out in a spirit of calm and respect for the laws...
...supreme adventure for man's spirit as well as his rockets. The stars and the moon have long been symbols of a remote and indifferent universe, a reproach to man's insignificance. Now man for the first time is challenging the planets themselves...
Ultimately, man cannot refuse the challenge, if he is to keep alive the essential spirit that distinguishes him from animals. After all, man's ancestors that stayed in the sea are still fish...