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Word: spiritism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Operagoer Die Fledermaus at the Agassiz Theatre through December 13 | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...Life selects to be the local managers are crucial to the system. Each is expected to be a father image to a five-man group of salesmen. The manager is trained more in lay psychology than in selling, and acts as a moral-rearmer when the salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling: If Nobody Loves You, Your Company Will | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy. But it is also the spirit of revolt against a stifling government that has banned, in addition to miniskirts, Twain, Chekhov, Beckett, and of course Z. As a work of art, Z can live without Greece. The question is, can the Greeks truly live without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echo Chambers of Horror | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...April. 1942 is the vision of a nightmare where "the world grows immense. a chamber of horrors. a tortured world." Another, from the year before, notes that Citizen Kane "magnifies a thousand times the drama of emptiness." A letter from Miller in Hollywood complains that "people are poor in spirit, low, mean, envious." Everywhere is the sense of chaos, of a suffocating cosmos. What is most remarkable about the Diary is its evocation of an age: Miller, Eugene O'Neill, the moribund Kenneth Patchen: they move like ghosts through the long years of the War. animated, prodded back into life...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Nostalgia The Diary of Anais Nin Volume III 1939-1944; Harcourt, Brace and World; $7.50 | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

Much of what they do will probably happen after most students leave for vacation. There is no reason that we should not take their ideas home with us. Unless things have changed, home needs a large infusion of their spirit as much as Cambridge does...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: You, Too, Can Be Santa's Little Helper | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

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