Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view it it questionable as to how much a knowledge of the other team's plays improves the calibre of the play. The other objections are negative in quality in that they raise a question as to the power of either college to live up fully to the spirit of the agreement. As in the case of the Hopkins proposals, opponents of the plan objected to the two team suggestion on the grounds that every college would make it a point to keep its beat team at home, this argument does not seem valid. We must admit practical objections...
...whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit of Saul of Tarsus? It seemed barely possible...
...Byrne has accomplished the seemingly impossible--he has entered into the spirit of the times and of Saul, later to become St. Paul, with an extraordinary depth and keenness of penetration; he has vivified his subject without vulgarizing it. Indeed not the least remarkable thing about the book is the gallery of living portraits which the author paints; paints with such clearness, diversity and power that they seem actual breathing, human beings. In "Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant...
...book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...anyone who has ever tried to separate the big from the little in life; how necessary is known only too well to the Senior floundering in a morass of technical histories, of political histories, of diplomatic histories, of social histories, all of which revolve around the central life and spirit of a people or of an age, and none of which ever come to grips with more than a shred of the reality of history. It is to the glory of the Beards that they have succeeded as they have...