Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perkins found in Fitzgerald a man whose writing captured the spirit of The Jazz Age--even though Perkins was a little skeptical of all those flappers--in Hemingway someone who lived the exciting kind of life that Perkins so admired, and in Wolfe a man who had come to a strong, profound understanding of America and its people...
...regime were members of his extensive family. Kenyatta's widow Mama Ngina, among others, amassed impressive landholdings. The father of the House sees no contradiction. "We shall build Kenya" he said, "into a single monument to the everlasting memory of our father of the nation in the living spirit he himself taught...
...American public lessons about the efficacy of organization, demonstration, passionate dramatics and exploitation of the mass media. The tacticians of those movements, dealing with fateful and fundamental issues, could plausibly justify using every available technique, including civil defiance. The trouble is that not only the techniques but the fervid spirit of the rights and antiwar movements are being adopted for general application in almost all social and political controversies. Some groups of Long Island residents howled and demonstrated effectively for a while against the Concorde's landing in New York as if it were a fresh incursion into Cambodia...
...keeping with the mad-tea-party spirit, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy plays Alice with a kind of Jabberwocky joy. But it is Hendricks, in the bravura role that she premiered, who stirs audiences to stand up and cheer at every performance. She has a pure but commanding voice that readily conquers Del Tredici's difficult but dazzling octave jumps, enormous range and unbelievable strings of high notes. Alice lovers can look forward to a planned recording of Final Alice with Hendricks - and, despite the title, to at least one more Alice from Del Tredici...
...railroad imagery is appropriate, not only because so many of Cheever's characters are commuters. A good many others are suddenly discomfited by journeys of the body or spirit that they had not meant to take. In The Seaside Houses, a husband takes his family to the beach for the summer and begins sensing sour emanations from his rented house; before he realizes why, his marriage of twelve years is over. In The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, a man with money troubles is appalled to find himself burgling his wealthy neighbors and friends...