Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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GIVEN: No matter what one conceives as the proper lunation of the schools-unless it be as concentration camps-they are functioning more poorly than ever before. The American system of public education is crumbling. But it is stifling the spirit of every child it can along the way. Question: What should be done? By whom? And who should make the decisions...
...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...
First Names. Wyche's election victory hardly demonstrated a new spirit of racial tolerance. There were fears of violence among both races. Segregationist sentiment remains strong, and Wyche was overwhelmingly opposed by whites. Black voters outnumber whites 3 to 2, however, and with balloting running almost completely along racial lines, Wyche...
Besides being the most crowded society, Japan is, as Kahn says, "the most achievement-minded society in the world." The Japanese possess a keen sense of competition, sharpened by the fact that their shoulder-to-shoulder existence invariably makes for many rivals and few openings. This competitive spirit extends beyond Nippon's borders and instills a deep concern among the Japanese over their ranking in the world. They intend to move higher. To that ambition they bring a machinelike discipline, an ability to focus with fearful energy on the task at hand, and an almost Teutonic thoroughness in all pursuits...
...special authority of a star, Maggie Smith. As Masha, flinging herself into the brief, doomed adulterous affair with Colonel Vershinin (Robert Stephens), she is the incandescent epitome of all women in love. Here is a Hedda Gabler of a Russian provincial town, a woman of fire, intelligence, gravity and spirit, married to a bureaucratic paper clip of a man who bores her to headaches rather than tears. Impelled to passion with a man who must leave her, she conveys a heartrending gallantry. Perhaps the saddest fate of a great playwright is not to live to see performances like this...