Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion Hank Greenberg is your Man of the Year. His courageous spirit shines above all others...
Such continued bickering would "do irreparable harm to the end which we all seek in the name of national security: the comradeship of all branches of the armed service. Once destroyed . . . that spirit cannot be revived by any legislative fiat or organizational chart...
...kovich was a prime target, and Prokofiev caught a few glancing blows. Now, considering that at one sitting rival composers can make or break a year's work by one of their colleagues, the sessions are fairly harmonious. Fellow members, regarding another's work in the communal spirit, can tell him he has been composing too many chamber works, and should change his pace. Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony was commissioned (the going price for sym phonies: from 8,000 rubles up, plus performance bonuses) after his fellows decided that, since his last symphony was written...
...Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...
...aware that they are launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...