Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
...last week Professor Breasted was indiscreet. He announced Mr. Rockefeller's offer prematurely, that is, before Egypt's acceptance was certain. The figure announced was the exceedingly plump one of ten millions. So swift and sweeping was public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance...
...duffel-bags full of ready-to-wear words and opinions that they had tucked there surreptitiously at the first Toscanini concert, drew them out. They dared to comment on "occasional roughness," "lagging tempo," "indiscriminate climaxes and crescendos"; agreed that he had acquitted himself well, commended his "energy," his "enthusiasm," his "excellence." One of them took out "sensational," looked at it earnestly, put it back again...
Sirs : I believe in enthusiasm. For a year I have been broadcasting the superiorities of three possessions?my Gardner Eight-in-line car, my daughter's Charleston and my weekly copy of TIME...
...false that the best method of education is to sit at the feet of the wise. And young tutors, whatever else they may be, are rarely wise in the old meaning of the word. A young tutor may be scholarly. He may be brilliant. He may have that fine enthusiasm which dazzles and captivates. But he lacks experience, the experience which comes from long contact with the world, and which mellows knowledge into wisdom...