Word: spiriting
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...find it galling that Clinton's supporters keep demanding to be heard. They refuse to accept that history and the spirit of the times was against them. They lost because they had poor strategy and poor cohesion among the campaign leadership and failed to keep Bill Clinton on a short leash. If they think they will get a better deal from McCain in terms of moving a progressive agenda forward, they are sadly mistaken. Eugene M. Giudice, Chicago...
...creative team for the revival has managed the difficult task of recapturing the '60s spirit without resorting to irony or camp. Director Diane Paulus says her young cast (most of them--including Jonathan Groff, a Tony nominee for Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind...
...take any empty seat for free. Except that the night I saw Hair, the house was full, so the ushers had to sit on the aisle steps in the balcony. Which turned out to be the perfect way to experience the celebrated "tribal rock musical" that brought the communal spirit of the '60s youth culture to Broadway for the first time. It was the greatest night of my theater life...
...write a musical that would express the new attitudes of the youth culture exploding around them: sexual experimentation, an openness to drugs, the rejection of middle-class values of all kinds and most of all a hatred for the Vietnam War. The creative process reflected this freewheeling, convention-defying spirit. To cast the show, Rado and Ragni scoured the streets of Greenwich Village for people with the right look. Early performances had an anarchic, anything-goes feel: some nights not enough actors would be onstage, and a cast member or two would have to double up on roles. Other nights...
...that's almost beside the point. It looks as if every generation is going to get an adaptation in another medium of Brideshead, so rich in nostalgia for the interwar spirit of Britain, so arustle with swell clothes and the (largely) frustrated longings of both the homo- and heterosexual varieties. Even if you never read the book, you will recall from the 11-part TV version of the 1980s how the infinitely sad young men and women of the story are bedeviled by the conservative Catholicism of the Marchmain family tradition, while we passionately wish for them to shake...