Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valiant attempts to assure them he reads educational books and has a healthy and well-adjusted environment, the Child Welfare Board rules that he must leave if Murray does not find a job. To add to Murray's dilemma, he and Sandy fall in love, and his free-spirit faces the agonizing choice of kowtowing to society's definition of "well-adjusted" or losing the two people he values most...
While inspiring laughter, the production provokes serious reflection about Murray's valiant fight to resist society. Murray tells Sandy at one point during the play that he will only go as a tourist to reality. He wants to pass on this spirit to Nick, to ensure that he continues to pinpoint hypocrisy and absurdity. Nick should never become one of the "dead people," unthinking and unfeeling. Murray's struggle helps to remind us of the necessity to avoid joining the ranks of the dead. If one must compromise, it must be knowingly and reluctantly...
...stunning trip to Israel, a Middle East peace settlement is conceivable. New initiatives and attitudes have broken through encrusted layers of inflexible positions, rhetoric and wars. The first steps toward a settlement will presumably be taken at a reconvened Geneva Conference, one that would be conducted in a new spirit of optimism. Even as diplomats who may take part in Geneva begin to worry about the initial, prickly procedural obstacles, others are -once again-starting to formulate what a fair, just and lasting Middle East peace would involve...
...innovative plans of I.M. Pei and embellished with a bronze arch sculpted by Henry Moore. They shop in a glass-enclosed piazza designed by Cesar Pelli, and send their children to schools conceived by Architects Harry Weese, Eliot Noyes and John Warnecke. Along with the distinctive new structures, the spirit and pride of Columbus have risen as well. All over town, old commercial buildings and residences are being fully restored. As Mayor Max Andress puts it, "A sense of quality has rubbed off all over Columbus...
...more likely effect will be to satisfy those who have dreamed of striking out afresh but who never will. Like travel writers of old, McPhee has acted as the antenna in a far-off place that few will see. He has brought back a wholly satisfying voyage of spirit and mind. - Paul Gray...