Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation with all Allied armies on the far-flung battle fronts of the war. Its volunteer drivers have given outstanding service, even before America's entrance into the struggle and it has greatly broadened its ranks since Pearl Harbor. The opening flurry of volunteers has subsided and sustaining enthusiasm must fill the openings created by the spread of fighting to new theatres...
...Metropolitan opera is back in Boston till the end of the week, and provoking, besides enthusiasm for its generally high standards, the usual amount of speculation on the future of opera as a whole. During the New York season, opera comes in for a pretty steady critical barrage, most of it written by critics more interested in good theatre than good music, and certainly, from the point of view of acting, staging, and occasionally the plots themselves, opera can be laughably ineffective as theatre...
Discussing student opinion at the beginning of the war, Rand emphasized its contrast with the enthusiasm shown by students when we entered the last war in 1917. "At that time," he said, "an undergraduate felt ashamed if he were not connected in some way with the R. O. T. C." In this war, on the other hand, he remarked that it was only the events that followed the defeat of France that shook many students from an isolationist mood...
...into the taken-for-granted rut. If its value be proven, it should be retained. But if the test of its practical success or failure show it to have been merely a patriotic but unworkable gesture, and a hasty move to keep apace of the band-wagon of national enthusiasm, it should be rejected. The confusion amid which compulsory athletics is being whipped into shape must not be allowed to befog a later fair appraisal...
...talk dogmatic stereotypes which are the death of all free discussion. The gentle schoolmaster, Clanricard, sick at heart in his wife's betrayal of him, makes genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must be sought." From the Genoa conference Jerphanion's friend Jallez writes him of the Russian delegates "they give me the same feeling as pickpockets at a fair or crooks in a casino...