Word: spiritless
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Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnection dead and spiritless; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur...
Work and Play seems as exhausted as France. The conflicts are spiritless, the dialogues read like editorials, the goings-on of all the characters, with no one of whom the reader feels akin, seem meaningless. The pathos of the novel is extraneous. It lies in the reader's dark foreknowledge of what was so soon to happen to this France that Remains describes. All these picnics, love affairs, speeches, quarrels, schemes, crimes, recollections, arguments about the future, projects for preventing war-this, Romains seems to say, was he best that French intelligence was doing. Few of the actions were...
...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...