Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF CHARLES IVES (Columbia). As a boy, Ives heard two town bands approach from different directions and march past each other, tooting different tunes full-force. The folksy spirit of band music, combined with the thorny complexities of conflicting voices and rhythms, characterizes his work in this excellent sampler. Eugene Ormandy conducts Three Places in New England; Leonard Bernstein, Washington's Birthday; and Leopold Stokowski, the longest piece, The Robert Browning Overture...
Neither were our celebrations "informal" in that they have always contained the complete formal elements of the Mass as required in this diocese. What we were doing was quite within all the rules. No "letter" was broken by our spirit. What happened was that the Cardinal had a newly restrictive letter written forbidding priests to celebrate with us, so that we would be beyond his pale. This we called a clear case of episcopal overkill. Our continuing public record thus conflicts utterly with your oversimplified description of us as underground or informal, either in form or substance...
...former ambassador to India called the immediate cessation of all hostilities against North Vietnam the "Obvious first step" in ending the conflict If the United States, now thought of as opposing the nationalist spirit that "has imbedded itself in our opponents," assumed a defensive role in Vietnam, the war could eventually be brought to a close, Galbraith said
...Crimson got a little more in the spirit of the game in the second quarter, adding four goals. Montero set up the first one, passing to Lutz Hoeppner out in front, and then bounced a pass off Damigella's chest which Jaime Vargas converted into a score...
...doubters can now rest easy. In Nelly Sachs, the academy or its scouts turned up the real thing. Poetry is the power to make the spirit soar even when meaning is obscured by emotion, and her work fully measures up to that definition. Nelly Sachs and the Nobel Prize were properly joined...