Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent illustration of his attitude towards musicians is the way he led the United States tour of the Orchestra National de France last fall. For almost the entire trip, Munch rode in the busses with the men, enduring their hardships, and bolstering them. His spirit was probably the principal thing which prevented the tour from collapse. After the completion of the trip, he travelled a considerable distance so he could testify for his musicians in New York, when they brought legal action against the American manager of the tour...
...louder than Toscanini does. He shushes for pianissimos, exhorts for fortissimes. Sometimes he depicts the music physically, but where other conductors often merely imitate the motions of a violin bow or a cymbal, (something which has no value for anyone except the audience) Munch attempts to portray the spirit of the interpretation he is seeking (something which can be of considerable value to the musicians as well as to the audience...
...earlier awards went to John E. Carlson '48 as "the man who has done most for Lowell House in the last year. Edward M. Yamasaki '50 as "the man who has fostered the most fraternal House spirit"; Frederick Richardson '48 as "the man who has done most to promote House athletics"; and Thurlow G. Ricker '48, as "the House member with the best sense of humor." Carlson is former chairman of the House Committee. Richardson is House athletic secretary...
Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
Noises in the Corner. During the tests, Medium Harley was beside herself with excitement. In a corner her "contact" with the other side raised a hubbub in the loudspeaker through which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which...