Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Tiffany lamps are Camp, she says by way of illustration, and so is a fondness for Scopitone films and the lurid pseudo journalism of the weekly New York National Enquirer. Turn-of-the-century postcards are Camp; so is enthusiasm for the ballet Swan Lake and the 1933 movie King Kong. Dirty movies are Camp -provided one gets no sexual kick out of them-and so are the ideas of the French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only...
...revived it. On Nov. 30, the University announced that it would press charges against four of the leaders of the October demonstrations. The students felt that the administration had broken an implicit promise, and the F.S.M. had a new campaign to fight. As one student put it, "the feverish enthusiasm for the F.S.M. always seems to die out until the University makes another incredible blunder, which it always seems...
...John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number of scholars, including Italy's Dr. Fernanda de' Maffei, who now presents the full case for attributing the statue to the sculptor. The argument draws its greatest strength from 169 photos, which compare the statue with dozens of known Michelangelo paintings, drawings and sculptures, and also with...
...before fans start frothing with undue enthusiasm about the victory, it should be pointed out that Amherst was pretty terrible. The Lord Jeffs sank only 38 of 69 shots and threw the ball away repeatedly...
Stan Yastrzemski, a reserve fullback most of the season and a star when he started in the Brown and Yale games, was awarded the William Paine LaCroix award for "enthusiasm for the game... sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit...