Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maguire's attitude towards "the greatest of American games" is best summed up in a characteristic epigram: "One defeat a season is good for the coach's soul. Two defeats are bad for his contract." Money, of course, means nothing to the builder...
...Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing...
...last night. The Vagabond never did believe in the myth of the Moonlight Sonata and the more he hears of Beethoven the more far-fetched such tales seem to him. Beethoven was too great to think of pictorial music. He wrote of the effect externals have on the singing soul and the trio Music 4c will hear today has over been a favorite, invoking full sympathy. And the Vagabond knows that the score will be fully justified by its executants...
There are many professors at their desks who can stir the young freshman soul to passion and effort, who can light the flame and let nature do the rest. There are young specialists who probably are poor teachers, because they are specialists and because they are young. New York Times...
Jonathan Edwards College, for the famed Presbyterian theologian (1703-58). Graduated from Yale at 17, Edwards preached dogmatically, saved many a soul, wrote many a book. In 1757 he succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr (father of Traitor Aaron Burr) as president of Princeton University, died of smallpox inoculation in the following year. Princeton also reveres him, has an Edwards Street, an Edwards Hall...