Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack Koosan '47, chairman of the Zionist Society, tempered his enthusiasm with the statement that "this is the beginning of a tremendous job. The Jewish State is assured, put it is not yet established; it does, however, give us a new incentive...
...disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano, to get more persuasively close to his hearers...
Spear saw in the enthusiasm shown at the Brown game a fair omen for the success of the coming rally Thursday...
...Great People." Is that exalted attitude a preface to dictatorial tenden cies? Perhaps; but De Gaulle understands the danger of dictatorship well. He has said: "What is dictatorship? Doubtless its first steps may seem attractive. Amid the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, amid the rigor of the order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively...
...head-spinning job-the translation of 300 patristic writings, to be published in a set of 72 volumes called The Fathers of the Church. The idea for the series came from an Augustine scholar, Dr. Ludwig Schopp, a New York rare book dealer who three years ago transmitted his enthusiasm, to Publisher Anthony Cima...