Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a loosely defined prohibition can only stiffle the spirit of free inquiry and discussion; it can only lead to fear and hesitancy in the academic community. This is not to say that professors and others should not take care to support only groups that work for what they believe in. The "loyalty oath" provision, however, must not be allowed to interfere with the right to believe and to teach, freely and honestly...
...Nice a Guy? The only big reservation about Christian Herter voiced last week by men who know him was a lingering doubt whether he has enough of the toughness of mind and spirit that Dulles had in abundance, and that Dulles' successor will urgently need amid the risks and challenges of the cold war. The adjectives that people who know him apply to Christian Herter are words of praise-gentlemanly, kind, courteous-but they do not necessarily imply the essential qualities needed in a Secretary of State in 1959-60. Nor do Herter's own "watchwords," picked...
...addition to his regular regional coverage, the Farm Journal's Streeter urges his home-office staff of 15 farm-savvy editors ("the best that money can lure and scouting can turn up-men and women with missionary spirit, who are anxious to help improve life on the farms") to play hooky from the magazine's comfortable building in downtown Philadelphia and roam the country. Streeter himself still likes to drop in unannounced on a farmer, politely decline the invitation into the parlor, and spend hours in the kitchen talking crops...
Although the rest of the Requiem never regains the magnificence of this opening movement, there are other high points, including the tender "Sing with the Spirit," the moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses...
...with great difficulty to anything approaching the sublime. After all, though a tinkle-tinkle here and there in a Webern score may satiate one's thirst for the piquant and highly flavored, it does not quench the far more important thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like the Sanctus of Bach's B Minor Mass, or Mozart's Magic Flute...