Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York-born Lewis Mumford is no intellectual opportunist. He was long a disciple of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, the sociologist-biologist-philosopher who gave him his enthusiasm for sound city planning. A self-styled "basic communist," Mumford disapproved of Marxists but writhed when he was called a "liberal." A man of parts, he wrote excellent architectural criticism for The New Yorker, lectured at Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard, got himself denounced as "a sublimated recruiting officer" when he called for a U.S. break with Germany, Italy and Japan...
...snap at their respective alma maters. And then there are the four prominent industrialists who, as worldly Harvard under-grads, enrolled in a notorious Cultural History of the Moslem Empire in Spain with sincere intentions of passing with the gentlemanly grade of C minus. But the enthusiasm which the professor held for this fascinating field inspired them to such feats of scholarship that they not only got A's but agree today that the delightful classes were the most enjoyable part of the four years...
...Pacific Charter along the lines of the Atlantic Charter will rouse the same enthusiasm among the peoples of the Far East as the Atlantic Charter did in Europe. A Charter like this would mean that Burma would become autonomous, Malaya would cease to be a British colony, and the East Indies would become truly Indonesian and not Dutch. Hong Kong will be China's and Shanghai no more an International Settlement. If we believe the statements made . . . recently, this already is the American policy in this war. If this is so, it only remains for America to give final...
Without noticeable enthusiasm, Mackenzie King informed a nervous House of Commons of a new Order Paper. It contained the only answer he could find at present to a racial and religious problem which Canadians of good will had always hoped that time-not civil strife-would solve. The answer: an amendment to the National Resources Mobilization Act which struck out Section 3 and thus empowered the Government to send Canadian conscripts anywhere in the world...
...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...