Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Richard Harris) enters America as a white hunter and emerges as an Indian chief. His small hunting party is annihilated by Sioux who decide to keep the Englishman as a plaything. They dub him Horse, tether his neck and make him clop about on all fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes...
Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
...rational, obsessed with the poem's existence as an aesthetic mode. Latin-American poets, Germans, Eastern European writers have all shared in the premise that the poem is essentially non-rational; it possesses a logic derived from the illumination of dark rooms, and not from the dour confession of spirit. A poem comes alive the moment that it claims authority from unknown sources; herein lies its identification with itself...
...reasons which I will outline briefly below, Wilson DuBose and I refused to sign the editorial. Furthermore. I have resigned from the CRIMSON for the duration of that policy, and urge those committed to athletic competition this spring to uphold that commitment in the spirit of the strike...
...basic force behind the strike exists in its justifiable rejection of moral tyranny on the part of one man over those under his power. It is therefore an ironic nullification of that spirit to force others to assume the same method of protest over an individual's privilege to choose his own means of dissent...