Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Bipartisan Support. The announced purpose of the celebration's sponsors -to "rekindle" the spirit of patriotism and respect for individual rights and to demonstrate love of country while conceding its problems-seemed hardly one to call forth controversy. Yet controversy there was, despite the ban on speechmaking and the roster of bipartisan political figures and national leaders, including Hubert Humphrey, Senator Hugh Scott and Senator George McGovern. who lent their names to the day. On the right, the Rev. Carl McIntire denounced the ceremonies as a Hollywood-style ballyhoo dishonoring America's Viet Nam dead. From the satirical...
...them simply because there are more people; a more telling reason may be that there are more bores because there is more communication. The high-speed richochet of news around the world has been a breakthrough for the bores. Never until now have these trudging pedestrians of the human spirit been able to do their tiresome thing for so many heavy-lidded audiences...
...hostile whites instead of sympathetic blacks. One result: a crushing loss of status for middle-class black educators, who have provided the black South with a sense of pride and leadership. A final "tragic consequence of desegregation," in the words of the N.E.A. report, "is the forfeiture of school spirit and group identity. Left behind to be stored, scattered or abandoned are trophies, pictures, plaques, and every symbol of black identity, of black students' achievements." For one black school in Louisiana, the wonders of integration were symbolized by the fate of a large mural depicting Booker T. Washington...
...maiden is Yvette (Joanna Shimkus), who steps backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit in the air. symbolized by soul-quickening jazz, bobbed hair and notions of the emancipated woman. Yvette soon tastes the salt in her blood and begins to seek the fast company of Mrs. Fawcett (Honor Blackman) and her lover, Major Eastwood (Mark Burns). Even more liberating is the anonymous brooding gypsy...
Part of the time he was writing his survey, Booker shared quarters with another ex-Neophiliac-and Christianity's prickliest recent convert-Malcolm Muggeridge. The spirit may have been catching. For Booker ends up, rather to his own surprise, preaching a sort of Jungian Christianity. Sitting amid the double rubble-first of the Establishment and now of the anti-Establishment -he looks at all the broken pieces and vainly yearns for some master myth to help put everything together again...