Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacLeish's enthusiasm for Mr. Benton's pictures finds expression in a Government policy, one result will be to alienate perhaps millions of Christian people in America from wholehearted support...
...native Russia in World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast of gusty. prophetic criticism - the kind of criticism which frequently overlooks qualifying facts, but is heard all too seldom in a country...
...exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints of his underlying hope that Fascism could and would eventually lead to the spiritual consolidation of Italy and the adoption...
...settled down eight years ago as librarian of the Avery Library to view architecture from the sidelines and to write the finest popular book (Architecture Through the Ages; Putnam; $6) in English on its history. Though he views the past greatness of Mexican architecture with a historian's enthusiasm, he believes that the best contemporary Latin-American architecture is being done by the Argentines and Brazilians, who today are rivaling the finest modern architects of the U.S. and Europe...
...five years later (it was 1929) Reporter Tabouis still received "a strong impression of warmth and enthusiasm" at the League's tenth session. The Young Plan had been substituted for the Dawes Plan. The unrealists sighed with relief. Said Briand: "There will be no more victors now, and no more defeated.' To symbolize the new international harmony there was an international radio concert. "The piano," said the woman announcer, "is in Paris, the first violin is in Vienna, the oboe is in London. . . . The conductor of the orchestra is in Berlin." "I hope," said Czech Prime Minister Benes...