Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, Bowdoin, Wosleyan, and Amherst by substantial scores. They have sluffed off the stigma of last year's flasco season which found them bouncing around in the league cellar, unimpressive and untouted, and have forced Hub scribes to re-upholster their stock of Crimson tennis epithets with rubrics of enthusiasm and praise...
...parents, though they never returned to the U.S., firmly refused to think of themselves as expatriates. The children, too, still consider themselves Americans. Papa, unable to get bourbon, made his mint juleps with French brandy, sold U.S. cottonseed oil with enthusiasm and regularly leafed through Southern history. As for Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma...
...been converted to MVA by a tour through the Tennessee Valley, "The trip completely eliminated from my mind the erroncous idea that TVA was of a socialistic, regimenting, paternalistic character, dabbling in social service, character-building, folk dancing and other foreign fields," he said. But President Truman's original enthusiasm for MVA was waning, and Congress was happy to let the controversial Murray Bill gather dust...
...museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, own Lawrence Kupferman's precise drypoints of decaying Victorian mansions. So far as Kupferman is concerned, these pictures are just museum pieces now. At 39, he bubbles with a new enthusiasm-making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...
...space of four days the W.S.S.F. relief drive has gone more than half way toward its proposed goal of $20,000, with a total to date of something over $15,000. While such striking proof of student enthusiasm toward an urgent cause seems unusually favorable, one fact remains far less encouraging: contributions from the Faculty and Graduate Schools have been shamefully small. More than $12,000 of the current total has come from undergraduates...