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Viewers won't shed many tears. The Republicans' Stepford convention made for a spiritless, sadly anachronistic TV show. To their credit, the TV reporters tried hard to find blemishes in the happy face being presented, searching for any stray Buchanan delegate (or Buchanan himself) willing to complain. Usually, though, the displays of journalistic independence were pointless. NBC aired a few minutes of Kay Bailey Hutchison's speech on Tuesday night, then broke away so anchorman Tom Brokaw could summarize the juiciest lines for analyst Tim Russert ("She goes on to say that 'it's time to wake up to President...
...Beanpot Record: The Harvard section of the Boston Garden looked empty and spiritless compared with the packed B.U., Boston College and Northeastern sections. Terriers fans wore over-sized painters caps emblazoned with what seemed to be the school motto--"We want more!" --and chanted affectionate words at the mute Harvard band. B.C. fans came decked out in tacky purple-and-gold rugby shirts. Even Northeastern fans waved banners to HARVARD MEN'S HOCKEY (10-9 overall, 10-6 ECAC) Player GMS8 G A PTS P/PM Peter Ciavaglia 19 20 29 49 0/0 Ted Donato 19 13 32 45 9/18 Mike...
...obstreperously brilliant newcomer named Lev Bronstein, who signed his fiery pamphlets with the name Trotsky. Lenin fought ruthlessly for control. He denounced his opponents as not Social Democrats but "Social Chauvinists," as "puerile," as "windbags"; after he lost a vote, he would accuse the winners of spiritless "parliamentarianism." When the Russian workers rose up in the largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only 25, who headed St. Petersburg's first soviet of workers and temporarily seized power in its name; when the Czar's soldiers crushed the revolt, Trotsky was sent to Siberia (he soon escaped...
...from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives the user to take the drug again. At best, researchers can hope for a patchwork of drugs to block discrete stages of cocaine withdrawal, such as craving and depression...
Ozick, who begins her article by mentioning last year's "mostly spiritless" centennial celebration of Eliot's birth, says that the poet's reputation has sagged so much that high school and college students "barely" read his work, and cites "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as the only Eliot poem that is studied today...