Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This column will operate on the assumption that it is better to whip up enthusiasm for what is coming than to deliver a post-mortem on what is past. During the course of time, several toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
...order to stir up spirit and enthusiasm for House sports, the Crimson Network will sponsor a series of broadcasts of House basketball games beginning February...
...students and be believe that with the aid of a little more mathematics and more individual instruction many students now floundering in elementary physics courses can be helped to a real mastery of the subject. Nevertheless, students who are not ready to tackle a hard and difficult job with enthusiasm had better seek some other path. For those who have the necessary minimum mental capacity and ambition this work affords one of the most effective forms of service...
Then came the war with Russia which was probably accepted as a just war because it involved the recapture of two provinces taken away by the U.S.S.R. But there was no enthusiasm, and the Germans are not and never will be considered by the Roumanians as allies...
...getting the answers, from the Near East's sheiks and emirs, its shahs and kings and plain people, Bullitt will have the advantage of his old newspaper training (Philadelphia Public Ledger), his knack for talking easily to new acquaintances, his enthusiasm for discovery...