Word: spiritless
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...Louie Armstrong's earthy recording of Mack the Knife after it had been all but ignored by local stations. On occasion, the amiable Gleason can peel skin. He risked the formidable anger of Pat Boone fans by describing Pat as "nice, clean-cut, antiseptic, spiritless, pallid, pretentious and even a bit of a phony." Last week, in his syndicated column, he took a long look at Benny Goodman and decided that the King of Swing has lost his crown: "Gone is the fine, warm, throbbing tone. Gone is the great driving swing . . . What we have now is a faint...
...Liberals, spiritless and ineffectual in the House of Commons since their defeat, showed signs of reviving confidence. In a noisy three-day convention watched by a nationwide TV audience of millions, speakers hotly accused Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of antagonizing Canada's best customer, the U.S., with talk of diverting trade to Britain. The speakers linked the Conservatives' trade policies with Canada's economic slowdown and fast-rising unemployment...
Maier, so ill these days that he has to hold his beer mug in both shaky hands, lost much of his following last year when the Free Democrats split and Maier's wing left the Adenauer coalition. His campaign is tired and spiritless, and Adenauer campaign strategists doubt that Maier and his Free Democrats will even poll the necessary 5% of the total ballot to stay on the rolls. His chief issue is that an Adenauer victory would make twelve Adenauer years in power and pave the way for a one-party state; it is not necessarily...
...with more than 150 other works of art in Greek Sculpture, text by Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold hue of the bronzes has tarnished. Nonetheless, like buildings whose stone...
...Columbus, Ohio arena, aging (42) Joe Louis, once the best boxer in the world but now paunchy and flabby, won his 15th straight wrestling match in a spiritless grapple ending with two phony uppercuts and a headlock. Waiting for Joe in his dressing room were two feds. They presented papers to take away Joe's $400 purse for deduction from his strangling $1,210,789 income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Mumbled Louis: "This kinda thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants...