Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Goffin's bounding enthusiasm has found many an outlet. Besides being a leading criminal lawyer of Brussels (until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...
Harvard can hardly be accused of lack of enthusiasm and determination in the war effort. But enthusiasm and determination must be given direction, if they are to give us eventual victory...
...great deal of this enthusiasm appears to be running to waste, from sheer confusion, and lack of information. While a majority of upper classmen feel that "during the war students should spend most of their time on specific training for war," they also want the universities to concentrate on giving liberal arts training. More than 40 per cent of the college is convinced that if they are drafted their training and experience will not be considered by the Army. In the light of Professor Seavey's recent report on his tour of draft camps, this is clearly a mistaken impression...
...deliberate, John R. Mott, still hale at 76, has practiced self-discipline since youth. He got an en cyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. Not famed for wit or humor, he knows how to find and use facts, whip men up to enthusiasm...