Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...
...right when you say it is bad taste or no taste at all to like some thing herdwise, witness the recent and almost leprous enthusiasm for the dead van Gogh ... I wish you perfect joy in your illustrious solitudes...
...artist who wrote this "to an imaginary friend" in 1936 might have been writing to his solitary self, for enthusiasm has never approached the leprous about Marsden Hartley. A steadfast New England eccentric, whose writings and paintings made sense first to Alfred Stieglitz in 1909, Artist Hartley sits in Maine apainting in the summer and in a Manhattan room ascribbling in the winter, with no public attention what ever. Last week at 61, weathered, heavyset, bright-eyed Marsden Hartley had his 25th one-man show at the Hudson D. Walk er Gallery and made something...
...This outpouring of student enthusiasm," he began huskily, "touches me deeply. ... You have shown me the way home . . . confirmed my belief that being the president of a university is the greatest way to high service. ... I have decided to stay...
...years ago the five big U. S. airlines chipped in towards development of the ship, agreed to buy none like it for 18 months. Since then T. W. A. and Pan American have ordered Boeing four-motored 307's and other lines appear to have cooled in their enthusiasm for the biggest Douglas, reputedly because of high operation costs. Last week United Air Lines' crack Pilot Benny Howard was at Santa Monica getting acquainted with the DC-4, intended at week's end to take it out on U. A. L.'s system to see what...