Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beer deliveries, perhaps by as much as 50%, because breweries were hard hit by conservation cuts in coal allocations. So were thousands of homes, Stores, offices, factories. (There was one chirpy note. London's Tribune whistled: "Now let's be reasonable. This wide-eyed enthusiasm for bad news can be overdone...
...Charles Munch, France's greatest conductor, pleaded with the men in rehearsal: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please play lightly." When the orchestra finally caught on, Charles Munch threw the men a kiss and shouted "Bravo!" In the musicians' locker room afterward, there was a buzz of enthusiasm; a good many of the Philharmonic players had caught some of the Munch spirit that is proverbial in Paris...
...following of hundreds of French women who bought season tickets for concerts of "le beau Charles," without even caring what he was to play. The Conservatoire directors cared, though. They admitted that he got brilliant tone quality out of his musicians, but they did not share his enthusiasm for contemporary music. Three months ago the directors ordered him to conduct more familiar symphonies. Munch resigned. (He could afford to: his wife, a Swiss condensed-milk heiress, is a very wealthy woman...
Speaking himself, Aiken declared that the enthusiasm of those attending emphasized the need for the conference "Development of the calculating machines has been so fast that we ourselves have not been able to keep up with them," he declared...
Traveling Home. Advancing years have sapped none of Hammond's enthusiasm. His latest love: a 20-ton trailer, which he designed and built. It has a kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, its own water supply. From stem to stern, it teems with gadgets, from an intercom to an electric dishwasher...