Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story in the apartment of a Neapolitan collector, where they were photographed by TIME'S David Lees. As the crèche appears on TIME'S first gatefold cover picture, it symbolizes not only the spirit of the season, along with Christmas cards and Santa's sleigh bells, but also a growing resurgence of religion and worship wherever men gather at Christmastide, be it in Bethlehem or Bogotá, North Viet Nam or North Hollywood, Calif...
...urgent as the rumble of talking drums, the spirit of self-rule swept across Africa. The big white-dominated lands of southern Africa would soon look north on a solid girdle of independent black states stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. In some parts of Middle Africa, colonialism was retreating in good order, leaving a promise, or at least hope, of peace in the transition to government by black men. In others, the process was jerky, confused and reluctant...
...Bernstein put such distinguished nonprofessionals on his program? "Christmas family spirit," said Lenny. Each man had the background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home...
When Pandora opened the box and loosed upon mankind all the evil gifts of the malevolent Greek pantheon, by Hesiod's account "Hope was the only spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and crouching, too much of the time from Hesiod's day until now. To this fact, as much as to the evils of "selfishness, vengefulness, hate, greed, cruelty, destructiveness and even self-destructiveness," which Pandora released, Dr. Menninger lays many of mankind's troubles...
...calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...