Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mention was made of Paul Hindemith, Germany's most promising composer, for whose sake Furtwängler defied the Nazis four months ago (TIME, Dec. 24). Hindemith was boycotted then as a "cultural Bolshevist" who in his early operas had used librettos not in the spirit of the German "world outlook." He was flayed also for having married a Jewess, for once having played chamber music with Jewish musicians, for having made phonograph records with a Jewish 'cellist, a Jewish violinist...
...conceived and worse executed; plain men every-where have long ago decided that its causes were not so simple nor its aims so noble as they were once given to believe. Author Millis, analyst of war psychology, who showed in The Martial Spirit that some wars could be reduced to the terms of comic opera, in Road to War reduces the greatest war yet fought to terms of fallible human nature...
...course one after another. Opportunity to see all gradations of rowing will be offered since in the early afternoon a schoolboy regatta will be held over the three quarter mile course off Magazine beach, while at 2 o'clock the House crews, admittedly unfinished, but making up in spirit of pure amateurism what they lack in smoothness, will splash over the Henley course for the honor of racing Yale...
...likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted a few almost inaudible hisses when the villain put in his dastardly appearance. There are a good many skits which, we must admit, seemed strikingly spontaneous...
...play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...