Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...found it. Perhaps we can find it together." His favorite admonition was "Naturally-play naturally." When he was pleased he cried, "Eggzactly-eggzactly." Once when a musician struck a wrong note and others looked pained, Casals remarked cheerfully: "In Bach's time everybody played out of tune. The spirit is more important than wrong notes...
Without Effort. One night last week, in Prades' Cathedral of St. Pierre, the Bishop of Perpignan welcomed the artists and the "musically select audience, all united here in the same spirit." Then as bald, spectacled Cellist Casals took his place in the transept, the entire audience rose with the orchestra in a quiet tribute...
Admittedly, this latter solution would eliminate the "do or die for dear old Rutgers" spirit attached to a play-off game, but at least it would be clear who won the championship. The situation as it now stands is a tribute to the lack of foresight on the part of ten athletic directors...
Cambridge and University police collected the cards from a few of the hundreds of Yard residents who swarmed through the Yard, Cambridge Common, and over to Radcliffe Thursday night in a rare display of traditional "Rinehart" spirit...
...Last week Hearstling George Dixon, professional Washington funnyman and not a member of the Gridiron Club, told what had happened. The club had decided to snub Harry Truman in May as the President had snubbed the club in December. The record was not played. Chided Columnist Dixon: "A spirit of pique and wounded self-importance...