Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise from the veterans in the non-comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This puts it up to students themselves to demonstrate, on the one hand, if they will back up lunch-time enthusiasm with action at the box-office, and on the other, if the poll-answerers comprise the bulk of undergraduate theater-goers...
...Considering the number of bridge players in the University," Fine said yesterday, "I'm surprised at the lack of enthusiasm for this tournament...
Besides his enthusiasm for Isabel and sculpture, Lachaise had another: books about the North Pole. Said Poet E. E. Cummings, who was among the first to tout Lachaise: "There is one thing Lachaise would rather do than anything else, and that is to experience the bignesses and whitenesses, and silences of the polar regions . . . to negate the myriad with the single, to annihilate the complicatednesses and prettinesses and trivialities of Southern civilizations with the enormous, the solitary, the fundamental...
Marring slightly the picture of "feverish enthusiasm" reported elsewhere were returns in Dudley Hall and Winthrop House. Thirty-five commuters has exercised their franchise as of last night...
...where does idealism exist today at College? At Phillips Brooks House, where the Social Service Committee workers continue to believe that the ordinary citizens of the community and their children will appreciate instruction, entertainment, and help from half-educated college men (but too many volunteers lose their initial enthusiasm too quickly...