Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dictators. They have thoughtlessly given dictatorship the positive and democracy the negative position; and on that basis they have assumed that democracy could be attained by the revolutionary overthrow of dictators. That, in a schoolboy's misconception of our history, is the meaning of 1776. The crusading spirit finds it easier to be against the infidel than for the faith...
Casals' simple but masterfully eloquent performance of the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello had moved the most undazzled of them to tears. When he put down his cellist's bow and took up the baton, he had called forth a fresh new spirit from the weariest fingers. With perfectionist Casals sitting before him in the audience, scholarly Pianist Rudolf Serkin had played through Bach's Goldberg Variations with a power and precision that transfigured Casals' round face...
Conant voiced the hope that the new buildings would provide as favorable an atmosphere for continuing the spirit of general education among graduate students as have the Houses for the College...
...celebration ... each alumnus again meets his friends and renews the warmth of acquaintanceship, while also partaking a bit of the spirit which the years may have worn off his outlook on life. At the same time, the University shares some of his maturity, becoming for a few days a community of experienced men, men with broader points of view, men who positively affect rather than passively submit to learning. Reunions add not merely to the traditions of the University, but contribute also to the character of its community, to each of its citizens...
...were put on opposite sides of a small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...