Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors. To meet with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
...seemed in good health and humor after attending the Mass of the Holy Spirit at St. Peter's, which preceded the conclave. Then, as he was resting after lunch, he collapsed with a heart attack. For years he had had a bad heart, in 1946 he had suffered a stroke; only last month he was hospitalized in Detroit for exhaustion and a general checkup. His U.S. colleagues, Cardinals Spellman and Mclntyre, reached his bedside in the North American College just after he died; saddened, they gave their dead friend absolution, and left almost immediately to take their places...
...determination to pay for his education had led him not to the altar, but to the loan shark's table. After getting out of prison, he finds that all the members of his family have died or been scattered. He lives on in a desolation of scene and spirit that the French, under the fashionable name of existentialism, have jazzed up as something to be talked about; here it is something to be felt. Fury rejects, out of his own dumb innocence, every kind of forged card of identity offered him. He finds himself redeemed in a trance...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra seems to thrive on performing works which are just a bit too difficult; the players combine spirit with effort and in the field of amateur musical performances, such enthusiasm is indispensable. If, as was occasionally the case last Friday evening, there are moments when things get out of hand, these moments are justified by the overall effect of a concert virtually devoid of the apathy and stiffness which had characterized the Orchestra in recent years...
...When I come across the river," Norton added, "I expect the students to know what the author's interpretations were. I don't believe in patting students on the head." He also commented that the production "must be on the professional level as far as the general spirit goes...