Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rubinstein, whom his friend Thomas Mann called "that civilized man," is a product of the same Europe that Mann knew, a Europe that also nurtured such pianists as Benno Moiseiwitsch and Wilhelm Backhaus. Indeed, Rubinstein could have stepped out of a Mann novel. His enthusiasm for food, wines, cigars, paintings and fine editions is legendary, and his cultural interests extend far beyond his music. He reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence...
Brooker may prove just what Ward needs. At least, he was trained in the right place: Sears, Roebuck & Co., where he rose to a vice-presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head the Sears-affiliated Whirlpool Corp. But his appointment helped kill the enthusiasm of Sol Cantor, president of New York's discount-minded Interstate Department Stores, for a previously planned merger with Ward. Cantor and other Interstate brass were miffed when Ward's Chairman John Barr did not check the selection of Brooker with them...
Princeton fosters an uncanny conformity among its undergraduates, evident from the moment a visitor walks onto the campus. They dress in one of the two Nassau costumes--tweed or dungarees and old sweater. They share a quiet enthusiasm for Princeton. It is this conformity which allows Munson to run his paper the way he does...
Thus, the Princetonian can't really help itself. Even if the editors wanted to, and since they themselves are undergraduates it is difficult to see why they should, the Princetonian would have difficulty opposing the wave of enthusiasm greeting each party weekend at Princeton...
Though Campus U.S.A. suffers from amateur theorizing, and though it has most of the faults shared by books based on a series of magazine articles, it occasionally raises a telling point. Boroff is most effective when he writes of the lack of life and enthusiasm in college teaching. His attacks on scholarly journals and the pressure to publish are bright spots in an uneven but occasionally useful book...