Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a spiritless third quarter, the few hundred spectators were re-awakened by an all-out 22 minutes. The left side of the Harvard line with Eli Berman, Jack Calhoun, and Drake forced their way forward again and again, only to fail because of lack of sufficient offensive support from the halfbacks...
...This 44-year-old Greek had been summoned from Minneapolis, whose symphony he has conducted for three years, while the Philharmonic's floppy-haired John Barbirolli-a British subject of Italian-French parentage-went westward, guest-conducting on his own. After recent critical blasts at Barbirolli's spiritless stick-waving (TIME, Dec. 9), veiled comparisons and references to Greek v. Italian were inevitable. Almost unanimously the critics handed Conductor Mitropoulos the decision. Thanks to him, the Philharmonic was itself again, one of the world's great orchestras - if only for a month...
...fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
Convention. National Defense and international affairs kept him in Washington but he was not too busy to follow the Convention day & night by radio. Even in his office he kept a gadget pocket radio open on his desk. When the Convention sank into confusion after its spiritless opening, he talked long with Harry Hopkins in Chicago, used the direct wire from the White House to confer long with Senators Byrnes and Barkley. When Alabama's Lister Hill, with lamenting tremolos and quaverollos in his voice, placed the name of Franklin Roosevelt in nomination, no sign or word betrayed Franklin...
...family as it is to the other. To those Germans who have not yet been completely hypnotized by Dr. Goebbels this must come like the handwriting on the wall. Germany went into this war under two false assumptions: 1) that the western democracies are too decadent and spiritless to defend themselves no matter what humiliations and demands will be put to them; and 2) that the British Empire is already in a greatly advanced stage of disintegration and ready to fall apart with the first real demand made upon its unity...