Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, harsh tones of survival. A ruthless and determined Russian drive for world domination could be stalled only by a speedy resurrection of such democratically minded nations as Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. While a 17 billion dollar loan is well-designed for the task, Mr. Harriman's enthusiasm seems to have overwhelmed his logic, for he also advises an immediate withdrawal of all aid to those countries which might in the future come under Kremlin influence...
...action taken by the Sophomore class ... was well-advised and the enthusiasm displayed encouraging," an editorial commented the following day, "but it remains to be seen if physical action will follow on parliamentary action ... Violence...should be kept to a minimum...
Cheerleaders wanted to hold Friday night mass meetings for other games since the Holy Cross fracas, but decided, "because of the failure of the Crusader rally, to collect all College enthusiasm for one night," Spear explained...
With un-Bostonian enthusiasm, the Atlantic Monthly had beaten the drum for its 90th anniversary number: "No night fireworks over the lagoon, no drum majorettes, trotting races or paper hats. Nary a clam will be baked. Just a slightly fatter than usual issue filled . . . with a rich assortment of good reading. . . . Otherwise, it will be the same kind of supernormal, extraordinary, quite-without-precedent, all-time-high collection that the subscribers get in the mail every month...
...Greek of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) seemed to many first-nighters last week what it seemed to Macaulay a hundred years ago-Euripides' greatest play. To be sure, Euripides didn't have much to do with last week's enthusiasm. More in the limelight was Poet Robinson Jeffers for his quite free, sometimes florid, but generally effective adaptation. Still more in the limelight was John Gielgud for his skillful staging (though not for his performance as Jason). Most in the limelight was Judith Anderson for her really tremendous performance...