Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...storm is a wild and beautiful country, made fertile by deepwell irrigation. Clean, brisk air, coming more in waves than gusts, buffets the winter wheat and corn that thrust above the occasional snows and seem to sway in time to the thumping of the irrigation pumps. Everywhere a new spirit of enthusiasm and industry is at work. It is felt in Guymon (pop. 6,000), a feed-lot and meatpacking center that is already siphoning business away from Kansas City. There are still trailers here; now they are filled not with migrants but with expectant property owners awaiting completion...
...from grownups. What will the children do? Play games, of course. Not the structured contests organized by adults, but games of their own choice and heritage. And if an unobtrusive observer from the adult world keeps a sympathetic ear and eye open, he may recapture some of the fleeting spirit that is the essence of childhood...
Other liturgical reforms may well come in time. The Pope's own preface to the new "order of Mass" encourages "legitimate variations and adaptations," and throughout the instructions there is a notable emphasis on adapting the liturgy to local customs and needs. "The spirit of the new missal," concludes Jesuit C. J. McNaspy, "is releasing rather than restrictive." While the Pope clearly intends the new Mass to be a working model, McNaspy and others are confident that the way is still open for the Mass to develop further...
...never deeply moving in the way that one knows the play could be. Only Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche Du Bois) brings into her Marguerite the authentic Williams tone of defeated gentility, of the violated heart, abusive in self-judgment and terribly tarnished by the world, yet untarnished in spirit...
...professional life, Tennessee Williams has explored the terrain of failure. But it has been the noble failure of the human spirit. The real tragedy of the Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots is that its failure comes not from the text, flawed as it is, but from the ignoble adaptation...