Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mildred Kieffer's suggestion for the "bringing of California architecture to the midwest and the mountain ballads of the South to New England" is not the sort of thing to arouse a violent, crusading enthusiasm; but the other proposals in the "Progressive" should be of considerable value to the delegates at Madison and to those at Harvard who are hoping for organized student participation in the solution of future problems in "social engineering...
...Little Enthusiasm. One wartime U.S. visitor was impressed by the prevalence of sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
Last week Jinnah surveyed the city in which he was born. There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...Neill's belief that it is better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm; he finds that it presently wears itself out. It is the same, he feels, with other repressions. At Summerhill, the worst behaved children are always the newcomers, because, of course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn...
Rhythm Antics. This year, as he celebrates his soth anniversary in show business, Fred Waring's big enthusiasm is his new career as a teacher. For a long time he and his top musicians have trooped around the country to hold classes in the Waring technique, especially as it fits choral singing. Waring, who thinks his own chorus is the best on the air, complains that he "can't understand what any other chorus in radio is singing...