Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
...Soviet standards-and perhaps by Western standards too-he is a failure. He is an innocent, and Author Pasternak asserts that such a spirit will outlast all regimes. At the end of the book, one of the three women who loved Zhivago bids him farewell: "The riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, the enchantment of unadorned beauty-yes, yes. these things were ours. [But] things like the reshaping of the planet-these things, no thank you, they...
...Jewish Folk Poetry, Opus 79 (Nina Dorlyak, Zara Do-ukhanova, Alexei Maslenikov; composer at the piano; Monitor). Shostakovich's :acit reproach to Stalinist antiSemitism, this lyrical, introspective music for three voices and piano offers a rewarding _limpse-far more intimate than his recent bombastic orchestral works-into the spirit of the talented, troubled man who s today's top Soviet composer...
...expedition to Easter Island. The islanders first tried to sell him their present-day wood carvings ("If we put on old rags, we are much better paid," explained one amiably), and promptly hailed him as "Señor Kon-Tiki." They attributed to Heyerdahl an aku-aku, or magical spirit, superior to their...
...brave new India is cooling. The national leadership, from Nehru down to the lowliest babu, seems more tired than inspired. The ruling Congress Party politicos, in their 60s and 70s, seem reluctant to make way for younger men. Corruption, cynicism and maladministration have dulled the nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military budget in fear of a possible war with Pakistan...