Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early prime, making the music that made them famous. The films have the audacity of the talkies? youth: the films are filled with racial caricatures, and you?ll hear ?hell? and ?damn? in the 1929 Makers of Melody. But the tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical at its primitive best: Have fun; give...
...Indian warrior who knew it was time to move on and was facing the darkness unafraid. That part I feel good about. He's free now, and he was really grateful that God took him. His body became a hindrance, and he wanted to be free to let his spirit go--go to where he could be back with Gloria...
...lights his passage to it with flaring wisecracks. "I don't want to die," his inamorata cries. "Neither do I, baby," Mitchum snaps. "But if I have to, I'm gonna die last." As inadvertent epitaphs go, it's pretty good. For one suspects that Bob Mitchum's spirit will live on in those impious corners of the heart where we treasure our more gallant and stylish transgressors...
...care for our rights and value freedom as a paramount goal of government must realize that we are caught between a rock and a hard place: maintain the single-minded focus on freedom and individualism and lose the personal responsibility that makes them possible, or seek to resurrect community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear to me, but to begin with, liberals must combine a vehement attention to rights with a circumspect view...
There is something irresistible about Oxford, despite the radical decentralization of the university and subsequent bankruptcy of several colleges and student resources, the poorly-veiled hostility of libraries, and the continual stomping-down of student inititative (last year's annual college report began euphemistically: "A spirit of cooperation has begun to replace the acrimonious Governing Body - JCR relations of previous years"). In the context of Britain, Oxford is still a repository of lost dreams and attitudes, with a life only as long as the memories that sustain...