Word: spiritedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a spirited but good-natured debate with Burrhus F. Skinner's '31, professors of Psychology, Aiken attacked Skinner's recent noval "Walden Two" for ". . . distracting people from doing something about the present by proposing a hypothetical future." The debate, sponsored by the Student Association for Natural and Social Sciences...
Henry VIII had six wives and a horde of mistresses, but none of them apparently did he love so fiercely as high-spirited Anne Boleyn. With other women he was the imperious monarch, but with her he was sometimes reduced to nail-biting anxiety.
Harvard's Glee Club ran through its program with case and quality, but the dull essence of its classical numbers brought a limited response from the holiday-spirited crowd. The Club's "Gaudeamus, College Medley" arranged this year by Acting Conductor William F. Russell was easily its most interesting piece...
Twenty minutes on the tackling dummies--the second time in as many days that Valpey has used the swinging targets to compensate for the enforced lack of scrimmage--and half an hour of spirited signal drill wound up the practice.
Blitzstein is also a clever musical impersonator: at home in a great variety of styles, he turns out spirited polkas, convincing Negro jazz, grandiose arias, lilting quartets. Moreover, in Regina the music constitutes the actual train ride, not just (as in musicomedy) the stops along the line.