Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London the Baldwin eight hour stratagem evoked little enthusiasm from the man in the street; but of course, the present Government can put almost any program it chooses through Parliament...
...after she had exhibited for six successive years in the Salon, one of her paintings was refused. Degas invited her to join the exhibitions of the Impressionists and she accepted with enthusiasm. Her style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs...
...vital life-force had disappeared. The formal totem became sc fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his idols and his gods but reluctantly and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting its true sense...
...Germany. Can you, by any stretch of memory, recall if there was not the slightest tendency toward jingoism in that nation? If the representative nobles, commonly known here as war-lords, scorned to egg the government on, or the war-trained people displayed a marked lack of enthusiasm...
Conductor Damrosch told of many proud experiences, of being decorated in Spain by King Alfonso with the Medal of Isabella the Catholic, of conducting the Madrid Symphony. He said of the music situation in Spain: "The Madrid Symphony Orchestra is to be congratulated on its unusual enthusiasm which enables it to hold high the torch and keep the organization going when they are so poorly and inadequately paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people...