Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most middle-income Americans, summer usually meant merely a hotel holiday-until recently. Today, more and more have their own vacation houses, and more brains, taste, enthusiasm-and careful budgeting-are going into them than into almost any other field of architecture. The second houses range from modest cabins in the woods to elegant retreats that cost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to $75,000 or more. They may be on the seashore, in the mountains, on a pond, or simply on the most convenient spot of land available for its owner's means. There are already more...
Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
...audience at Cohasset on opening night didn't quite know how to react to the shabby proceedings, and at the end of the play those who had stayed through it, applauded with less than warm enthusiasm. The Cohasset Music Circus proudly called "The Two-Headed Baby" its first world premiere. There is, then, the satisfaction that this play has not been produced anywhere else and probably never will...
...theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school of charm. As the music money pours in, he collects romantic interest from...
...Vision Ahead. The U.S. is backing Britain's initiative with unalloyed enthusiasm-and, at times, pushing it with so much vigor that the more discreet British are downright embarrassed. U.S. policymakers, like many in Europe, are still fearful that the Six, dominated by France and Germany, could become a "Little Europe" and then retire behind high tariff walls into a political third-force position...