Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for his temporary eclipse was a lack of enthusiasm for Russian nationalism, he has more than made up for it in his comeback attempt, for "Alexander Nevsky" is as intensely nationalistic a film as any which local screens have shown in recent years. Basing his story on the struggles of the heroic Russian cavalry against the invading Teutonic knights of the 13th century, Eisenstein has created a picture which is more enthusiastic than sound, more spectacular than it is well-knit...
...give up this Eastern tomfoolery and revert to their true Middlewestern background. For deep in the heart of every honest product of the states between the western Pennsylvania border and the eastern Colorado line lies a loyalty to his own local football aggregation, a loyalty that transcends any artificial enthusiasm he may have worked up for Harvard during his undergraduate career...
Moreover, they were given in the face of an increasing apathy among the students towards the Club's productions, a deplorable situation in itself, and a puzzling one in view of the great enthusiasm shown in other colleges for undergraduate productions of every description. Probably one explanation of this disinterestedness in Harvard Dramatic Club plays is that they were performed without benefit of an up-to-date theatre, Harvard, the cradle of college dramatics, being almost the only university in America that does not possess today a modern theatre or theatre-auditorium. Be that as it may, it is most...
Newsman Weller guessed that Drummer Carrington's enthusiasm might preserve drum talking for at least a few more years in the Stanleyville neighborhood. But even in Africa change is inevitable. Today, when Quarrelsome Smith wishes to refer with his drums to a white man, he politely beats: "White man spirit from the forest." In his youth he would have walloped: "Death on the river...
...important positions during the emergency, there would be no cause for alarm. But "morale-building," when it refers to colleges, goes a good deal farther than that; it means more than drafting the man-power or physical facilities of a University; it mean more than stirring up some enthusiasm in patriotic rallies. It means, instead drafting the minds and wills of Faculty and student body alike...