Word: spiriting
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Originally from the West Indian island of St. Kitts, Maynard has brought a home-cooked spirit to the Adams House dining hall and has pleased countless students along...
...sold-out FleetCenter in downtown Boston. Unfortunately, the condition of his vitality did not exhibit much variance between the two occasions. The old bard has clearly lost his touch, but that didn't stop the girls sitting in front of me from trying to resurrect some of his old spirit. The young women filed in before the lights in the arena had gone down, eight of them in all, all done up in tight tops and black go-go pants. They weren't exactly the sort of kids you'd expect to see at a gathering of nostalgic Baby Boomers...
...genuine mind-altering experience, the girls turned to their smuggled flasks of Wild Turkey immediately after settling into their seats. I watched as they passed the liquor among them, hoping that perhaps they might decide to offer some to the fellow revelers sitting around them. Apparently, the spirit of communal property that defined the 1960's is one hallmark of that era that has not survived. I was denied a swig and had to endure the rest of the evening in a painfully sober state...
Melissa R. Langsam's commentary "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" (Jan. 9) advises men who wish to be gentlemanly to "walk on the street side of the sidewalk." This tip captures an ideal of the past--but only in form, not in spirit. Years ago, careening carriages and muddy streets threatened the pedestrian who walked on the street side of the sidewalk. Today, as some etiquette guides point out, the more immediate threat for female pedestrians often comes from dark alleyways on the "woman's" half of the sidewalk. EMILY R. SADIGH...
...which he was to play a man from Hughes, Ark., Duvall broke up a transcontinental trip to stop in Hughes. "I got off the Trailways bus," he recollects, "and wandered into this little church. There was a lively preacher; the congregation was stomping and moving and feeling the spirit. I said I'd like to play one of these guys one day." When he asked Foote to do the screenplay, the author encouraged the actor to try it himself. In 1984 Duvall began writing. "I pieced it together from stuff that I had found out about this kind of life...