Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a spirit of intense competition and partisanship, debating may lack the opportunities for graceful personal expression derived from acting or writing or playing a musical instrument. Instead, a debate is more like an athletic contest, as one student put it. "You go out and try to do the best with what you have. You want to win, and, as in any competitive sport, you'd be pleased even if there were no one to see you. And there is nothing inherently wrong, either, in playing your best game even if you have a poor team...
...Spirit of Visual Arts Report...
Although this new, expanded workshop is not specifically mentioned in the Report of the Committee in Visual Arts, Sert emphasized that this type of thing was "definitely in the spirit of the Report." The workshop idea was suggested in terms of Harvard theatrical development, but Sert pointed out that this idea of development in the area of visual arts is definitely prevalent in the Committee's Report...
...come specifically to learn Puerto Rico's pragmatic techniques of letting private enterprise develop an area while a democratically elected government supplies aid and incentives. Luis MunÕz Marin thinks that they also see "the U.S. at its undogmatic best: the helping hand guided by the undoctrinaire spirit, so forgetful of its bigness that it fully reveals its greatness...
...stake half a claim to a new bimonthly: Poetry London-New York. Price: 75? a copy. Stamped on the sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind the would-be poetic renaissance is an unusual editor-poet and long-time friend...