Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...spirit. Goin' Down the Road is closer to the intimacies of Marty than to the paranoid swagger of Easy Rider. It is weakest when its score laments "just another victim of the rainbow." It is persuasive and forceful when it studies the social pathology of urban outpatients, men who chivy and moon, boasting of the rural splendors that they once fled, dreaming of the Big Strike, and buying color television sets on time...
...Pilot School, he said, is "breaking down the spirit and minds, brain-washing our kids...
...hear expressed a different kind of power-the spiritual power which moves nations and moves men. Pragmatists would say what really matters only is power. I know, however, that there is another power in this world, the power that transcends material factors... it is the power of the spirit. The President did not elaborate on this power, and no one pressed...
...same moral pretensions have traditionally been a part of country music, persistent themes of infidelity and violence are passed on in a didactic spirit. Until the mid-twenties a considerable stock of music existed that was played by both races ( John Henry, Corinne, Corrina or Dark Town Strutter's Ball ) but only the white singing groups attached to their music an ethical message...
...Comedy is criticism" means that the comic spirit jabs a deflationary hatpin into vanity and pretension and pomposity-just as Bob and Ray do. Their comedy reflects a society that is inundated with talk. Their chief target, the interview show, affords a shock of rueful recognition to everyone, for who has not spent hours of his own prime time listening to the dull conversing with the fatuous, or to Babel lecturing Babbitt? Bob and Ray have thrown a net into this noisy, restless, self-important sea of totally irrelevant information and fished up the audience's own image...