Word: elan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if skiers are no longer able to spend conspicuously, they will probably still continue to spend, because nothing has yet diminished the wild beauty of a ski run, the challenge of modern technique, or the elan of apres ski--three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...
...press conference on the veranda of Tanganyika's Dares Salaam Club, sadly explained that he had been kicked out of Zanzibar because some people, "four or five" at least, felt he carried the seeds of death. "Wherever I go there will be bloodshed," he mourned. But the old elan returned when he was asked how many had died in the coup. "Of my enemies, 11,999," he boasted. "Of my own men, nine...
...early works, disenchantment flickers at the edges of gaiety, and in Germany perhaps it seems the dignifying element of his work. Though Darmstadt re-creates his musiquettes with utter fidelity, the result is sometimes closer to strudel than soufflé. The orchestra plays impeccably, but without the elan that Paris gave to Offenbach, and he to it. Though every seat at every performance is filled with beaming burghers, the cancan line has not a single roguish wink for admiring males. Darmstadt is well pleased nonetheless. Landestheater Director Hering said last week that he plans to revive two more Offenbach works...
...which an individual's personality is still able to make itself felt within the System. A House gains for allowing the Master to impose some portion of his personality upon its organization and upon the choice of students admitted to that House. A House gains from the greater elan of its residents when they have carefully, even agonizingly selected that House themselves. But, confined by distribution quotas required by the University, the subjective elements can wield only small influence. They can be only small oases in a desert of mechanical necessities. But a desert without any oases...
...with admirable elan...