Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to forget that Paul struggled for 15 years to hold together just such a community of faith, regardless of the cries of the extreme left or right; that he oversaw the most thorough reform the Church had seen in 2000 years; that he encouraged an unprecedented spirit of ecumenism and began the move toward unity with other branches of the Christian faith; and that he steadfastly refused to give in to the efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms he began. Perhaps historians will manage to forget all this, and still judge Paul a conservative...
People who live on wheels constitute an American subculture. In spirit they seem first cousins to the pioneers-except that the next horizon does not promise rich bottom land or gold. Still, there are rewards along the way. Some business couples, like the Crowthers from San Diego, live year round in their bus, a Newell Jewel; Dick, 38, and Mikey, 34, make a good living selling French cookware at the two dozen motor-coach rallies they attend each year. For a few, like TV Actor Darold Westbrook, 46, and his wife, Darlene, 45, a converted 1950 vintage Greyhound...
...morale is always healthiest during a war (one that it supports and is not losing badly); everyone is forever volunteering for something: rolling bandages, running canteens-feeling helpful, a part of things. Contrary to the narcissistic sects now working the Pop culture, plumping egos like pillows, the individual spirit flourishes best in useful contact with others. And the collective spirit cannot thrive when individuals are all arcing around in their small green capsules of self-regard...
Brattle Theater--Brattle St.--Spirit of the Beehive, 6:35, 9:50; Mandabi...
...corners of rooms. In his essay "The Artist of the Real," Alan Trachtenberg suggests Evans' work was inspired not by painters or by other artists, but by literature, the writings of Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Whitman and Henry James. "He arrived at his proper point of view through the spirit of objective realism, aesthetic autonomy, respect for feeling and epiphany in common life, that he found in their writings." Evans claimed he saw in himself the combination of two people, Parisian street photographer Atget and Civil War photographer and historian Matthew Brady. In fusing these roles Evans became a kind...