Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit of Armistice Day, the CRIMSON will also give up the fight tomorrow and not publish. However, Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily will be doing business at the same old stand Friday morning bright and early...
...Theater was conceived in an 18-hour café conversation between two fervent young men: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who became its administrator, and Konstantin Stanislavsky, its guiding spirit. Stanislavsky (whose dressing room is kept as he left it at his death in 1938) was a brilliant actor, director and author. He taught a new, true-to-life style of acting that was widely imitated. He built a large repertory of classics, trained his players as a team with no stars...
...competent to judge. Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times's drama critic and onetime Moscow correspondent, saw the Art Theater in 1923, 1935 and 1945-46. Atkinson believes that the clammy hand of bureaucracy has turned the Art Theater into something routine and mechanical. Says he: the great spirit that nurtured Gorky and Chekhov and inflamed theater-lovers the world over is gone...
...fettered physics, he argued, was not really science at all: "The real things were learned in 1890 and 1905 and 1920 . . . and we took this tree with a lot of ripe fruit on it and shook it hard and out came radar and atomic bombs. [The] whole [wartime] spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known...
...tall, slim, straight as a boy, though grey-haired. His face we thought ugly: I am not sure that the word 'monkey' has not been murmured in this context. But the moment he spoke it became, as was also said, like the face of an angel ... a spirit burning with intelligence and charity...