Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's last track practice yesterday, the entire team grouped together and began circling the Stadium en masse, in time to "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." From an artistic viewpoint, the music was mildly terrible, but the spirit it indicated will be the varsity's biggest asset tomorrow against a powerful Yale squad...
...commuters' athletic program drew a mixed response--"good spirit and interest, although lack of time to participate puts Dudley at the bottom of the Straus competition." Though one student claimed that it was "well-run, despite natural difficulties," another said the program was "terrible because of student apathy and commuter inconveniences." All college students complain of the lack of time, but commuters, who average a half hour on the road per day, have reason to complain a little louder...
...many of those who do regard it as merely a coat-rack and cafeteria. The place lacks tone--participation is erratic. The result: an athletic program that is "good, but difficult to support adequately," or as another commuter put it more accurately, "good on paper, but lacking in spirit...
...orchestral introductions were done with distinction; their sound was full-bodied, their phrasing, sensitive and their spirit, compelling. While accompanying Murray however, the orchestra made some surprisingly shaggy entrances and, at times, Harbison's more grandiose conception of the work resulted in the orchestra's drowning out Murray's playing. This imbalance and inaccuracy on the orchestra's part disappeared in the last movement when it joined the pianist in a vibrant performance of the finale--a fitting close to an excellent concert...
...generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some time of man's greed, his search for love, and his search for God. Readers had better take warning. Death in That Garden has its victories, but they are of the spirit. The bodies of its characters are shockingly served...