Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew exactly what the limits were and how he felt about things") and ingenious about rigging a staircase for children to climb up on the examining table by themselves ("The kids loved it"). But Michael feels that the main thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched...
...Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15. The physiological contrast of apathy and enthusiasm might reasonably shift to one of individualism and conformity...
President Harry R. Katz '69 attributed the lack of enthusiasm to the events at Chicago last summer and the club's endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey last month. The recent victory of Richard M. Nixon, he added, "could only further discourage students from becoming involved in today's American political system...
...work (two soloists, eight arias) has now been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China. It is about as ex citing as a Communist indoctrination lecture-which is what it is. Even the workers and peasants who have been marshalled into showings have shown enthusiasm only when a picture of Mao himself has appeared. In response to Chinese critics who compared her new style to "insipid water," Madame Mao replied: "What's wrong with insipid water? It is with such water that wine is made." As yet, no trace of wine has appeared...
...lack of student enthusiasm, Wesley E. Profit '69, PBH president said. He added that there were excess applicants this year...