Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...find myself in agreement with The Rev. Billy Graham, I must concur with his contention that the flag [July 6] is much like the Queen of England. It is an anachronism. In an age where our greatest need is the development of a humanitarian, internationalistic spirit of unity, many Americans identify with a chauvinistic symbol that not only separates them from compatriots but also from our brothers and sisters in other lands...
...this mixture of Old World outlook and New World recruits arose the quality that most distinguishes the ABT today: a meaningful eclecticism. From the start, the great European classics were produced with a breezy American iconoclasm that seemed to thumb its nose at "ballet" in favor of "theatre." That spirit bubbled to a boil in April 1944, when Robbins performed in his own Fancy Free, the first American dance classic to achieve wide popularity. The company has never been dominated by a single choreographer-as is George Balanchine's New York City Ballet-or a single choreographic outlook...
Starting at the Top. In running his company, Ford is all business. His intense sense of responsibility to the family name will not let him be anything else. He started at the top and stayed there, but doing so took an iron spirit. At 27, two years after the death of his father Edsel, he led a family coup that forced his aged grandfather to relinquish leadership of what was a sorely troubled company. Then Ford wrested real control from Director Harry Bennett and his crew of hired thugs in a series of tense confrontations, during which...
...countryside to apply his new-found wisdom. Each adventure turns out to be a con game, with somebody else working the con and Hatterr as the game. Attempting to exorcise the mystical fit of an itinerant bard, he is himself accused of being possessed by a spirit and is nearly burned alive on a pyre. "Damme," he says, "this is Life and contrast...
...conveys something of the real drama of medicine and particularly of the drama of his first heart transplant. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was a sprightly, funny, thorny man, furious at his helplessness and cheerfully willing to put his heart in Barnard's hands. The book captures both the spirit of this crotchety victim and the excitement of that extraordinary operation -even though the prose, at key moments, tends to overflow like a sliced-open artery...