Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studies in Europe. To achieve this newest goal they will need money--and their next job will be to convince some of the larger foundations in the United States of their worthiness. If the heads of those foundations would come here and feel for only a few days the spirit of this seminar, convincing would not be necessary...
...proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings off to the West Coast with the traveling menagerie for which he has been appointed barker. El Toro Molina, the chief exhibit, is a youthful monster who barely knows how to put up his hands and has the fighting spirit of a titmouse. Eddie throws a cocktail party in Los Angeles to sell the Giant of the Andes to the press...
...Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit is broken; his chicken salad days are gone, and he ends up, of all things, henpecked by his last wife...
...spirit that motivates these gifts does not flower magically at the moment the giver's name is added to the Alumni rolls; nor is Harvard the recipient of bounty because its graduates are unable to find other worthy beneficiaries. Only the memory of four years well and enjoyably spent will bring Alumni to the point where they are glad to part with hard cash to enable posterity to participate in the same experience. But memory is a fragile thing. It must be stimulated and refreshed by such things as reunions, class secretaries and albums. Of all these the Class Album...
...Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...