Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
Mark Hopkins, Williams' philosopher-president: "[His enthusiasm] continued for three score years with no abatement. . . . He was then 85 years old, but his [passion for rediscovery remained] as keen in questions which he had discussed with six generations of students. . . 'I missed only one day last year,' he said . . . 'and then the young men sent a committee asking me not to venture out, since the great storm that was raging made the streets nearly impassable...
Guarded communiqués reported four important breakthroughs on the tuberculosis front. Yet strategists and tacticians alike muffled their enthusiasm in public; the fight was not yet won; TB was still the No. 1 killer of U.S. citizens between...
...move the world, the hearts of nations, of politicians and statesmen even. For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
Buenos Aires had never seen anything like it. The day Juan Domingo Perón became their legal President, a million Argentines unleashed their last reserve of enthusiasm...