This high-spirited tradition was helped enormously by our host serving generous quantities of the local (and, on this occasion, home-brewed) liqueur, Cartagène - a strong fortified or dessert wine, some 16 or 17percentnt proof.
"If he had listened to what everyone told him, he would never have done it," notes one of Mr Tata's friends.First, do no harmAlthough he has made Tata's big businesses more competitive and more inclined to look beyond India's borders Corus would be just the latest in a series of foreign acquisitions Mr Tata has also run it in keeping with Tata's public-spirited tradition.
Among Broadway's marquee names, Mr. Lane is the sole avatar of a spirited comic tradition that stretches back to vaudeville and is associated with stars like Eddie Cantor, Bert Lahr and Phil Silvers.
With its understated wrapped shaped and apparently neglected finish, it's a spirited break from tradition.
This high-spirited party — a tradition started nine years ago when Mr. Watts D.J.'d on Ditch Plains beach on Long Island for a few dozen friends — might determine whether this former blue-collar resort has been "ruined" by all the newbies or, in fact, bolstered by the influx.
Indeed one does find a spirited discussion within the tradition concerning the question whether the Buddha is omniscient, a discussion that may well reflect competition between Buddhism and those Brahmanical schools that posit an omniscient creator.
Moving from character to character, the loosely plotted story includes a good deal of mean-spirited evildoing, quite in the tradition of Balzac and the naturalists.
The season started with Copenhagen Design Week, which, true to Denmark's thoughtful tradition of public-spirited design, was dominated by sustainability.
Now, Republicans have to try to shape Mr. Daschle's image by portraying him as a mean-spirited confrontationalist, supposedly in the tradition of Senator George Mitchell, the former Democratic leader accused of hobbling the presidency of the senior George Bush.
The New Hampshire primary has a not-so-proud tradition of mean-spirited advertising on the last weekend of the campaign; most infamously, there was the advertisement put on the air in 1988 by Vice President George Bush that labeled Mr. Dole "Senator Straddle" for refusing to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, a spot that helped doom Mr. Dole's candidacy here.
When the disgraced former banker Dominique Strauss-Kahn indulged in orgies, was he simply a free-spirited libertine following in a notorious tradition dating back centuries and pervasive in French culture?
