Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two statements about the present condition of British politics which would be almost universally recognized to be true. One is that neither of the two large parties evokes the slightest enthusiasm in the ranks of the people. The other is that these two parties are so firmly in command of the machinery of politics that there is no prospect for a long time of dislodging either or both of them...
...just a dreadful man? Disagreement on this point has kept his profitable reading public in a tizzy for years. His best-selling first novel (The Postman Always Rings Twice) was banned in Canada, bought and shelved by M.G.M. by request of the Hays office. Serenade and Mildred Pierce provoked enthusiasm, disgust. What baffled readers was the fact that Author Cain handled the rawest of characters without gloves, mixed social significance and abnormal psychology into speedy narratives of crime and passion...
...late thirties. The gulf between composer and listener had grown steadily wider. Under the barrage of clever and unappealing work that the atonalists, impressionists, neo-classicists, etc. turned out, the critics became evasive and began to accept each new work with equal tolerance and an equal lack of enthusiasm. That isn't to say that competent, entertaining music wasn't turned out in the twenties or thirties, but rather that the composers were mainly experimentalists, interested in playing with effects...
Shaw's first plays were received without enthusiasm, but soon he was battling with the dramatic leaders of his day. Invited to Westminster Abbey for Shakespearean Actor Sir Henry Irving's funeral, he retorted: "Literature, alas, has no place at his death as it had no place in his life. Irving would turn in his coffin if I came, just as Shakespeare will turn in his coffin when Irving comes...
Whether it's compulsory exercise, a desire to get in tip-top shape for action with the armed services, or just plain football enthusiasm, Adolph Samborski 26, director of House athletics, doesn't know; but he does know that many more men have reported for House football than he has uniform...