Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much, also, for Harvard-wide bonds. In exams, and only in exams, we share a common interest in Harvard; Harvard does roughly the same thing to all of us, and we all cope with what Harvard is doing to us in pretty much the same way. The spirit of football fails to reach a great many students; so does the spirit of confrontation politics. It is only in the exam period that all Harvard students are dealing with the Harvard, and for each, it is the worst of Harvard because it is a crisis; when the crisis subsides we make...
Rhetorical Blight. Conservative William F. Buckley, who likes Nixon but loves style, delivered a toast in acid. To him, "the striking passages of his address had to do with the human spirit. These passages he could speak feelingly because he is the primary American exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The astronauts never had such dark and lonely moments as Nixon had, and out of that experience he fashioned a philosophy which is essentially hopeful." Still, he found banal passages: "We are going to turn our swords into plowshares yes yes yes." Buckley also detected...
Simplicity, spareness and clarity are the order of the evening, and that alone makes the show a treat by contrast to most other Broadway musicals. There is no piston-pumping chorus testing the floorboards in Celebration, only a small gentle band of masked dancers decked in the costumes and spirit of a carnival. The straight melodic line and unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs appeal to the ear without assaulting it. Celebration is intimate and beguiling and it has a distinctive personality rather than a powerhouse complex. It is one of those good things that come in small packages...
...first character onstage is a bird -The Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise...
...Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where life resembles life more than it does here," and the play ends in a mood of sadness for the desolation of spirit that has fallen on the land. Yet for all his bitterness, O'Casey keeps his broad Irish sodbusters quirkily alive. Like his symbolic rooster, he weaves his own warm, life-affirming way through the play with a magic mix of phrases and cadences...