Word: esprit
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...esprit of Hanoi's Communist cadres, North Vietnamese morale has slipped since the bombings began. Says British Orientalist P. J. Honey: "They are holding constant indoctrination courses to intensify the people's hatred of the 'imperialist' Americans, which they never had to do against the French. The way they keep up spirits is to claim they have shot down hundreds of American planes. But the planes keep coming over in increasing numbers, which must make the North Vietnamese peasant wonder...
...Philips). The late Pierre Monteux was 88 when he recorded this Mother Goose ballet suite with the London Symphony Orchestra, creating crystalline tableaux of sleeping princesses and lost children. Monteux also conducts the tilted, spinning Valse and seductive, syncopated Bolero with both French esprit and body English...
...make people nervous before it was completed. During the '50s Harvard drama had flourished in Aggasiz and the House dining halls. Producing organizations abounded--and were constantly in debt. The Loeb, it was feared, with its moveable stage, its novel winch system, its fancy lighting board, would destroy the esprit and the air of crisis that had given so many shoestring productions their vitality...
...upheaval that Jean Monnet wrought in France, when in the mid-'50s he was able to shake his nation out of its sloppy practices. The Labor government has made only a beginning: it has offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given new hope and esprit to the scientific community. Last week Minister for Economic Affairs George Brown-whose ministry was created by the Labor government-signed with representatives of unions and management a historic declaration of intention meant to keep wages and prices stable...
...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...