Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONCERTS in the Houses are generally notable for their charm and enthusiasm rather than their professional polish. Every once in a while, however, the tables are turned and a House offers musical fare in competition with and equally prestigious as that ordinarily scheduled for Sanders Theatre or Kresge Auditorium...
...were reported close to an agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...
Historical Squabbles & Byways. Schuller avoids the excesses that have blighted so much previous writing on jazz - the legendmongering, the amateur guesswork, the "in-group jargon and glossy enthusiasm." He does plunge into some historical squabbles, notably in his attacks on the stock notion that only jazz rhythms came from Africa while its melodies and harmonies were derived from Europe; actually, he says, all of its musical elements came largely from Africa. Here and there he explores an intriguing historical byway, as in his study of the influence that New Orleans opera performances had on the ragtime and blues of Creole...
Most of the enthusiasm was not translated into specific plans for operating the university without an administration, or with a very weak one. But one member of the SDS steering committee, Ed Hyman, outlined a plan which he said he will soon present to the students...
...final explanation for undergraduates' lack of enthusiasm is what Professor Joseph Bower, Faculty Coordinator of the Harvard Business School Summer Internship Program this summer, calls the problem of the role of the businessman. This concept seems to encompass both the intellectual and societal hang-ups of undergraduates in regard to business. The role of the doctor or the role of the lawyer are academically and socially defined and accepted. Most undergraduates today neither understand nor accept the concept of the role of the businessman. It has for too long been ambiguous. The role of the professional manager...