Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent, despite its 90-odd members, even in the tumultuous contrapuntal sections...
...people who took King Collins's dialogue seriously were Professor Inkeles and a student named John Henry, who invited Collins to Eliot House last weekend. Both finally called the police to get rid of them. King Collins and his gang have brought out in us the vigilant spirit--with all its anger and fear. I know they have freed nobody. I hope they haven't imprisoned us either...
...down from this attic that we suddenly got together and went on having the most enormous fun, I believe, two people have ever had--writing The Meaning of Meaning. It doesn't perhaps look as though it was such fun, but it was much of it written in the spirit of "Here's a nice half-brick, whom shall we throw...
Harvard, riding high after a thrilling 64-49 upset of Dartmouth, will probably have to be content with some fine individual performances. "We're a full-of-spirit team, and all I can ask of the boys is their very best effort," said Crimson mentor Bill Brooks...
...after years of unbudging loyalty to the party line, it suddenly occurred to Haldane that the official Soviet position on the vexed matter of genetics was nonsense. "I am a Mendelist-Morganist," he was later to exclaim plaintively. He had accepted the stifling grip of dictatorship on the spirit of a people who had given birth to Tolstoy, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. But Haldane finally choked on what was essentially a split hair-a technical scientific point...