Word: esprit
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Head Coach Sallitto and defensive coordinator Townsend Clarke were both pleased with the dominating performance of their team, but also acknowledged Army's weakness. "We thought they (Army) would be stronger, but we were really up and just beat them. Our boys have a lot of 'esprit de corps...
...Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet. But generally the work of the company betrays a certain unease. It may be that MacMillan and his dancers have not yet struck the right working relationship. If so, MacMillan did not improve matters by staying in London, leaving esprit, not to mention foot work, to others...
...film, however, never strays far from its hero: this is the Tramp's story, and Charlie Chaplin is the Tramp. More than anything in the plot's evolution or even the set-up of individual scenes, the humor and-or sadness evoked depends on Chaplin's unique blend of esprit and helplessness in this, his best-known character. He always chooses just the right foolish grin, the exact degree of surprise, the perfect whimper of apology...
...Marks we got really psyched out of our minds for games," he said. "Here everybody was too sophisticated for that. Everything was won on talent--there was no real esprit de corps...
...Franklin Roosevelt's foes insisted on calling his bright young advisers "the Drain Trust" and referring to some of his programs as ushering in a new "Age of Chiselry." In the 1800s the critics of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli labeled him England's Jew d'Esprit...