Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stunning Democratic setback, the President spoke the old, familiar words: "I accept their verdict in the spirit in which all good citizens accept the results of any fair election...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...lively ditties, Don't Be a Woman If You Can and Land of Opportunitee; but Composer Schwartz gives you nothing whatever to hum. The dancing is agreeably tame, the chorus is more slight than select, the costumes lack charm and the singing lacks body. Leonora Corbett (Blithe Spirit) and Arthur Margetson (Around the World) are helpful performers but no miracle-workers. Park Avenue never catches the mood, or captures the lure, or achieves the high spirits of genuine musicomedy...
...meditations of the many who heard him: "I am thrilled with a sense of joy at something triumphant that has happened toward the end of my long life. . . . My heart is filled with thanksgiving and high rejoicing that we are met as we have met, completely in one spirit, under one Father, as brothers and sisters...
Commenting on the letters, Campbell declared: "It is interesting to note that letters of thanks point to the spirit of giving, as much as the food itself...