Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who are familiar with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the body formerly responsible for making such funding decisions, the news is disturbing. RUS was known for its warm, inclusive spirit and for encouraging a maximum of student input. Its members were elected yearly from the female undergraduate population, and topics discussed at weekly meetings were openly publicized...
...think the most important thing is a spirit of collegiality and rationality and cooperation," Lewis says. "With all the presidents I have worked with, I have found the meetings extremely valuable two-way streets...
...tries to escape. Then it magically floats up on a shaft of light and joins the rest of the pod. Together they all soar, through clouds, until with a great splash they come to the surface of what may be heaven. It's a superb, uplifting flight of the spirit...
Though Coward, who died in 1973, is intensely beloved by a devoted coterie, the wider audience knows him mostly for his brittle, epigrammatic plays--particularly Private Lives and Blithe Spirit--or for that foolproof cinematic stirrer of the female breast, Brief Encounter. But where his plays and films bear the whiff of a long-gone age, Coward's songs retain their vitality: the frisky list songs that display his wit (Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington) and the achingly tender ballads that reveal his unmatched capacity for genuine sentiment (If Love Were...
...they want, without having to deal with stuffy curators or pushy gallery directors looking for the next big-bang art star. Some of the spaces now in Boston, like Bromfield and Mobius, started in the '70s; others have started up more recently, but with much the same spirit. While a few spaces, like Kingston and Mills, resemble commercial galleries, most are more like ramshackle clubhouses for artists. Many are inside artist live/work buildings, and thus function as a kind of extended living room for their residents. The art on the walls is just the beginning: many of these places offer...