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Moreover, a project to fill it is just what ESPRIT ought to support.
Since the late '70s, however, Stoppard has shown intermittent dissatisfaction with the kind of intellectual jeux d'esprit that made his name and has committed himself to a more ambitious theater of ideas.
Perhaps inspired by its own acronym, ESPRIT insists that each ESPRIT project, however complex its title, choose a single-word acronym by which it may be identified; and ESPRIT itself never refers to projects by their full names, but only by the acronyms.
Some of us may even take a slightly perverse delight in the ability to rattle off the first 90-odd names of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General, thanks to the jeu d'esprit of a brash young Harvard junior-faculty statistician in the early 1950s.
They are participants in ESPRIT's Basic Reasearch Actions, or BRA--a less conspicuous support system.)