Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Solzhenitsyn seeks is a return to aspects of man's spiritual nature, or, as he says variously, "things higher, warmer and purer," "the Superior Spirit," or the "Supreme Complete Entity." He wants some higher principle which will help guide individuals to achieve their human potential. Western materialism which he believes promotes only weakness and mediocrity, has no place in his scheme of things...
...manner in which you tie the Veni Creator Spiritus with I Corinthians 1: 20 in your cover story "In Search of a Pope" [Aug. 21] is inspirational. I was moved each time I read that paragraph, and I read it more than once. Imagine that: the spirit speaking through TIME! I can only say amen, and amen...
...Animal House's "filthy, outrageous lot" [Aug. 14] are the perfect portrait of "the true spirit of American higher education"! Well, well. Wherever Frank Rich attended college, he is certainly not qualified to condemn the entire American system of higher education on the basis of his own limited experience. Perhaps he went to college "to spend four years studying sex," but there is no justification for dragging the entire undergraduate world down to that level...
...fond of sneaking off to his hideaway that he called it Shangri-La. There he and Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived from the 1959 summit conference between Eisenhower and the Soviets' Nikita Khrushchev. In all, 20 leaders of foreign countries have stayed there...
Granier-Deferre's talents perfectly suit that spirit. The textures of a period costume, the mood of a grand hotel or a diplomatic corps tennis tournament-these he dreamily recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that the revolutionary politics of our age had actually been conducted with the elegance and civility depicted here. If only history had Granier-Deferre's good taste, and had kept the blood and violence offstage, so that the sound of the gramophone playing tangos had not been drowned...