Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last May the Harvard Glee Club had requested that Yale not bring its female members to the concert. Haywood Torrence Jr. '71, president of the Harvard Glee Club, said yesterday, "In my opinion, the Harvard-Yale Football Concert with all its traditions-the type of music and the spirit of the weekend-should be an all-men affair...
...were doing. The kind of Western Europe that is emerging now is a very pragmatic Europe, cooperating step by step in areas where they are indeed highly interdependent. This is what De Gaulle had in mind." But others point out that De Gaulle's "no" killed a certain spirit, born of the war and the Communist takeovers in Eastern Europe, that provided a supranational impulse toward rapid federation...
...declared the trial illegal in a one-hour statement to the court. Amalric's friends fear he may not survive his harsh sentence, for he suffers from heart disease. His wife Giselle, in a statement given to Western correspondents, said: "I know that my husband is strong in spirit and that neither the indictment nor the sentence can break him spiritually. But I also know how weak his health is. I fear...
Encyclopedic Statement. Runge, who died in 1810 at the age of 33, shared this passion for nature's spirit. His large Morning (1808-10) was one of an unfinished cycle of panels on the theme of "The Four Times of Day." Its knotty allegories have never been fully deciphered, and may never have come wholly clear to Runge himself. Evidently he was combining several systems of mythChristian, Judaic, classicalin one encyclopedic statement. But for all its obscurities, its transcendent optimism blazes forth: this is the closest contemporary equivalent to Beethoven...
...carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes