Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carnival Spirit...
There is something about the serenity of the place that inspires a spirit of new beginnings. It was at Camp David, in the far reaches of Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, that Jimmy Carter initiated his most stimulating success as President six months ago: his summitry that broke 30 years of bloodshed and stalemate to make possible a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Last week Carter returned to the mount to seek a new start on the two persistent and interlaced domestic problems that most endanger his presidency: inflation and energy...
...year they spent a staggering $17.8 billion on alcoholic beverages, up fivefold from ten years ago. Of the $222 that the average Japanese adult invests in hard stuff every year,* 42% goes for beer and 31% for sake (rice wine). What is remarkable is the rise of a Western spirit: whisky. It accounts for 20% of all alcohol sales and comes in scores of brands, more than half of them made in Japan...
John Paul opposes Western consumerism and Marxist economic determinism because they exalt materialism at the expense of the spirit and undermine the dignity of the individual human being, established for all time by Jesus Christ's redeeming death on the cross: "[Man] cannot become the slave of things, the slave of economic systems, the slave of production," he writes...
...literature of the Soviet Union's political dissidents continues to crowd the imagination like a 19th century novel. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov echo in the dramatic testimony of Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Daniel, Sakharov, Medvedev and Mandelshtam. Vladimir Bukovsky's To Build a Castle adds the spirit of Lewis Carroll. His Soviet Union seems like a vertiginous rabbit hole lined in permafrost, or the other side of the looking glass, where the Red kings and queens of the Kremlin can sometimes be made to play by the rules...