Word: sprites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pliant, childlike female, very like their eldest and prettiest daughter, Irene. Most of the novel is devoted to Urie, who is 13 when the book begins; she is an avowed bluestocking blessed with ambition and "a thick ego." Then there is Sylvia, 11, a charming but unfathomable sprite who is called "Loco Poco." Shortly after arriving in Ephesus, Urie forms an intense friendship with an ignorant but brilliant local boy named Zebulon Walley, whose ego is diaphanous and who attaches himself to the Bishops like a starving kitten...
...under the circumstances? After all, even Jesus Christ thought he was God!" In a way, it is something of a relief to turn from social architects who want to program human behavior to the modern variety of Utopian, who seeks power only for pleasure. "Do it!" commands the Utopian sprite Jerry Rubin-meaning just about anything one wants to do. And it can be done with a clear conscience as well. Even if someone does not want to do anything, he can help build Utopia. If Marshall McLuhan is to be believed, just by sitting around and watching television, people...
...they are propelled into a euphoria of creativity. As men, they are overwhelmed. Harold's wife has left quickly to be replaced by Maryann, a sweet, yielding office worker who becomes the mistress-mother that father and son need. She is the link to humanity and joy, a sprite who dances solo on the desert floor in tights and shucks her M.I.T. sweatshirt for sunbathing in mixed company...
...lucrative fashion career for the uncertainty of the cinema. Director Ken Russell (Women in Love), who will do her first flick, says: "She'll be the greatest thing to hit the screen since Monroe." "It's got to be something nice," insists the 91-lb. cockney sprite best known as Twiggy. "I couldn't do a big sexy role...