Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to deduce something was amiss. It turns out this rock concert was the Rainbow Gathering Healing Festival, a collection of people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon...
Carlin clearly believes his contact with Columbia's students and bohemians during the smoldering '50 shaped both his humor and intellect. "There was all kinds of ruffian elements in our neighborhood, and then we had the college kids, intellectuals...'faggots'. I can't believe that whole spirit of erudition just passed through our existence. I'm sure it was a force on our lives--it can be measured some day when we have the right instrument...
...That spirit, if nothing else, is good cause to hold off for quite a while on writing the obituary of the 1978 Harvard soccer team...
...equipped and ill-motivated local soldiery (they go into battle carrying shotguns), the corruption of the local district leader, a high command that doesn't understand the nature of guerrilla warfare, and a less-than-inspiring crowd of American helpers. Among them: A sergeant whose gung-ho spirit has been burned out in the war. A lieutenant who moronically parrots-because he moronically believes-all the official rationales for the war, all the official ideas of how to conduct yourself on this dark and bloody ground. A sometime college student one suspects of having literary ambitions...
...flesh, of course. But in spirit, nuance, mannerism, inflection and any other ephemeral component of credibility that might explain the graying CBS anchorman's enormous popularity. A faction in the state television monopoly wanted to replace the reigning crew of bland newsreaders with a single, reassuringly credible, American-style anchorman-en effet, a French Walter Cronkite. In 1974 French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were...