Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Announcer: "We do hope that the new female students will finally be able to whip that impetuous tiger spirit into submission...
...that conference personifies the problems that Harvard has begun to encounter. Nathan Hare, special coordinater of black studies at San Francisco State College, recently authored a memo that sets strict standards for a teaching staff ("Any white professors involved in the program would have to be Black in spirit in order to last. The same is true for 'Negro' professors"), specifically excludes the possibility of whites teaching black history ("The white man is unqualified to teach black history because he does not understand it") and finally wonders whether white students should be permitted to take black classes...
...Cambridge Society did not succumb to this hazard. Its chorus was, above all, conscious of the spirit of liturgical dramatic works, so that while the performance was not a surpassingly beautiful one, it was exceptionally tasteful and engaging. And this was not so much the result of doggedly exhuming every ornament as of pentrating to the irreducible dramatic intention of each composition. The performers were most successful in the movingSong of Simeon, in which a baroque solo choir in the balcony sings a text different from that of the main choir, symbolizing in Schutz's words...
...Church of Dallas is the biggest Southern Baptist church in the U.S. This year the church celebrated its centennial and, coincidentally, its pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, is serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Despite its urban location, First Baptist preserves the folksiness and fervent spirit of a country congregation. Architecturally, the church is a 19th century red brick horror, but inside age and polish have mellowed its determined ugliness. The services, too, have a turn-of-the-century flavor. Sermons, by Criswell or one of his three assistant pastors, are four-square Gospel messages...
...that it be nice, decent, reassuring and uplifting, but never marrow-chilling or soul-devouring. Playwrights themselves propagate dead plays, since most of them cannot fulfill the single most demanding requisite of vital drama: "A playwright is required by the very nature of drama to enter into the spirit of opposing characters. He is not a judge; he is a creator. The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another-a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built -is a superhuman task at any time." What makes the playwright's task more...