Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with no sales at all. But some lawmakers objected to his tactics. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who will be the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that the "linking" of the three items "violates the intent and spirit of congressional review procedure...
...district was divided into six subdistricts. Two were relatively isolated from downtown Dallas: Oak Cliff, 98% black; and Seagoville, 85% white. In those two areas, school officials promised that even though the races were segregated, they would get "equal" education−a promise that obviously ran counter to the spirit of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...
...Fourth U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last year that a clause in the student government constitution at the University of North Carolina (UNC) designed to ensure that black students were adequately represented "blatantly fouls the letter and the spirit of both the Civil Rights Acts and the Fourteenth Amendment." The ruling overturned a district court decision in favor of the minority clause...
...really, this is taking the whole thing a bit too seriously--something that contradicts the whole spirit of the Loeb's production, which plays every breath to the hilt--including the atrocious Spanish sprinkled through the dialogue. Figaro is clearly the best Loeb production of the spring, and it would be unfair to demand much more...
...succession of new roles in La Sylphide, La Fille Mal Gardée, Les Sylphides. Her first Giselle in May 1975 was a major triumph. Gelsey's peasant girl seemed halfway toward spirithood even before she falls in love with and is betrayed by Baryshnikov's charming, careless nobleman. Pure spirit in the second act, she had gossamer lightness, nearly unbearable youthful poignance. The part confirmed her arrival as a romantic ballerina...