Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown had resigned his CBS job three weeks ago when News Chief Paul White objected to his broadcast statement that "a good deal of the [U.S.] enthusiasm for this war is evaporating into thin air." White said that was just Brown's opinion, told him to label it as such. Brown said he had developed the opinion on a recent countrywide tour, felt no embarrassment at uttering it without qualification. The announcement of Brown's resignation had not been publicized because his $1,000-a-week contract with his sponsor (Johns-Manville) did not expire until last week...
...Britons and the world, but it may not be discussed: the hope Winston Churchill expressed at Harvard University that one day there might be common U.S.-British citizenship (TIME, Sept. 13). *Two weeks had passed and the Prime Minister's country had shown a notable lack of enthusiasm for the proposal...
...inadequate preparation in mathematics. . . . The public is now Essentialist-minded. [Its] attitude . . . has been largely formulated in the fiery furnace of war. . . . Now there is the danger that the public will swing too far. . . Progressive education . . . proclaimed that traditional education had become a ritual ... a mold into which the enthusiasm and idealism of youth were poured with unfortunate results...
...Requiom by Brahm's. This, the most ambitious number on the program and the most popular part of the Brahm's Requiem, was probably the best part of the program, although a selection from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan, sung by the Glee Club alone with tremendous power and enthusiasm was evidently preferred by the servicemen...
...moving on to greater extramural triumphs. He helped transform book reviewing from a scholarly exercise for the cognoscenti into an evangelical service for the man who reads while he runs. In 1922 he launched his "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, each month thereafter glowed with enthusiasm for the most wonderful book of the month (or year or decade...