Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final examinations each year. Maine's Nasson College is developing a new division with the help of nine other colleges (including Antioch, Bard, Sarah Lawrence and Stephens), which will have no traditional courses and no grades, will center on seven broad "provinces" of learning, such as "mind and spirit" and "mathematics and logic...
...powers of the mind, the one overriding trait that makes Rubinstein percolate is rooted in his spirit. He is a hopelessly rosy-eyed, warm-blooded, bighearted, card-carrying romantic. On the Old World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...
...pure color. And yet technique was not an end in itself; Busoni invariably sub ordinated pianistic skill to musical mean ing. Passion and intelligence were reconciled in sensibility, and in the last years of his life, says Busoni's biographer Ed ward Dent, his performances reflected "the spirit of a seer and visionary" and achieved a "grandeur" amounting to "prophetic inspiration...
...radical student movement would be a spur to this development, and even within the context of the war, Oglesby is cautiously hopeful of its success. He notes that SDS is growing rapidly even without a dramatic program, and that its opposition spirit has been strengthened, not crushed, by the growing war machine...
Others were not appeased. One noted with spirit that "they are giving us crumbs to eat, in order to keep us quiet...