Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmth that Daniel Barenboim elicits from the English Chamber Orchestra. The Siegfried Idyll sounds like what it was meant to be: a lullaby. The Schoenberg piece, one of the composer's very early works, and Hindemith's mourning music for viola and strings, have great spirit. Barenboim's first recording of modern works augurs well for the future...
...FRENCH, by François Nourissier, THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. Two perceptive and plain-spoken Frenchmen examine ailing France and the cantankerous French spirit and reach the same conclusion: unless attitudes change and institutions are revitalized, a debacle is certain...
...human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred privacy and a diminishing food supply. I fear that the Pope cannot see the flesh for the spirit...
...grooming. The swinging look, long confined to with-it secretaries, is fast spreading to other employees, men and women alike. In many offices and executive suites, business greys are giving way to the bolder hues of the boutique. For every stuffed shirt still around, for example, a freer spirit at the next desk is likely to be wearing a striped or even a paisley one. "Business is permitting far more latitude in dress than it did five years ago," says Sherrie Rubin, a field representative for Los Angeles' Western Girl Inc. employment agency...
...Cazenove had violated its code. But shortly thereafter, the board admitted that it really had no enforcement powers. At week's end the City was treated to the spectacle of an emasculated board that reversed itself and decided that the companies in question "were within the letter and spirit of the code." American had won Gallaher's. But the end result seemed likely to be the establishment of a new and separate agency to preside over all mergers involving British companies and foreign investors...