Word: spiriting
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...Lincoln--he has a doctorate in education--in what can be attributed to either the ceaseless wonder of America's entrepreneurial spirit or a particularly good batch of hooch, invented the Testicle Festival. "I dabbled in poetry when I was young, and it just sort of rolled off the tongue," says Lincoln, who requests that details of his education be downplayed...
...Other Ones proves the Dead isn't dead. Judging from a recent San Francisco show, the band shares the Dead's spirit of improvisation and musical wanderlust. Still, without Garcia's gray-haired, gracious presence, there's a hole. No one in the band has his unlikely charisma. Nonetheless, it's gratifying to see Weir, Lesh and Hart together again; they communicate without words--with looks, with licks--and have a connection onstage that can come only from years of playing together. As for the new Other Ones, Hornsby's piano and Ellis' sax add jazzy warmth...
...biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...
...Keepers is in jeopardy." McCartney, a former university football coach, refuses to be discouraged. "I've been part of a football program that was on the bottom, and I saw it become one of the top programs. If the right people work together, with the power of the Holy Spirit, if the anointing of God is with you, you can go the distance." He and other organizers vow they will cancel none of the remaining stadium events scheduled through October around...
...thought it was fascinating; you're able torelive history and the spirit of Longfellow," saysPatricia J. Leur, from Long Beach, Calif