Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...
...Prince's dead beloved; in acting both herself and the dead ballerina, the milliner successfully wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...
Arguing that the University is trying to "comply with the spirit of the housing code" even though it plans to build dormitory rooms seven and a half feet high were Robert T. Holloran, an architect for the firm of Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson & Abbot; and Henry J. Muller, Deputy Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
...impossible to commemorate adequately the spirit of Budapest last October, but it is also impossible to forget the sacrifice. The fight showed that the Communist system did not and could not fulfill its promises of democracy. The lesson of Hungary for the neutralist nations should have been a significant...
...Cliched Spirit works more wonders than its tired reputation admits. Yesterday's M.I.T. squad, like last year's played a loose, seldom coordinated game to beat a superior Harvard team with a spirit Harvard could not pass around...