Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected back soon. The Swiss took me out there in his car. The news had already spread, for the streets all around the consulate were lined with people and there were swarms of French police at hand to hold them back. When the American cars arrived, there was tremendous enthusiasm. There were two American soldiers in full field equipment sent to guard the consulate, but this was only a gesture, as the . . . only task was to hold back the enthusiastic throng...
...President Roosevelt celebrates his 61st birthday ... at the close of one of the most brilliant episodes of his career: a journey which brought the breath of his democratic enthusiasm into three continents; a conference which, however little we may know about its strategic decisions, dramatized the fact that the psychological initiative in this war has passed to the United Nations...
Conductors who can rouse both their musicians and their audiences to frenzied enthusiasm are born, not made. Few seem to be born in the U.S.* But last week in Manhattan's Town Hall one budding U.S.-born conductor had Manhattan's surliest critics holding their breaths with excitement. He was an earnest-looking, square-faced, 26-year-old Californian, Robert Shaw, and he was conducting a hastily trained chorus of 170-odd singers in a program of modern music by Manhattan's William Schuman...
...January issue of the American Mercury, maintains that "American boys are not fighting on scattered fronts...for any practical balance between our democracy and dictatorship of any brand." Lyons and other critics charge that Wallace is more sympathetic to the Russian cause than our own, that in his unbridled enthusiasm for the Kremlin he is forgetting what his "common man" is fighting...
...model has been built in Florida and run to Washington under its own power. But despite the enthusiasm with which various agencies have greeted this development, Yourkevitch and Woodworth have encountered inertia. No one has yet been found with the authority to order a real trial of such life, labor-and material-saving tankers...