Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. Sheen, who used to compete with Uncle Miltie for the Tuesday night Nielsen ratings, will continue the TV sermons he resumed last September after a nine-year absence. "In Rochester I will be closer to the people," he told a Manhattan press conference. Carried away by interfaith enthusiasm, a photographer rushed up to the bishop and called out the Hebrew blessing: "Mazel...
...those who signed the petition, Stanley Hoffman, professor of government and faculty associate of the Kennedy Institute, said that he signed "out of enthusiasm over the prospect of such a debate." The students have every right to make the request, Hoffman continued "but if I were the Secretary of Defense with a full schedule I would decline...
...they had no chance and preferred to sacrifice Rolvaag rather than a promising young man like State Attorney General Walter Mondale (now U.S. Senator). It's more likely that Rolvaag, lieutenant governor for the last eight years, seemed the strongest candiate despite his inability to stir up anyone's enthusiasm...
...adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax by thrusting both fists in the air. Böhm later chided him for it. At the next performance, the composer introduced the climax...
Richard Harris plays Rafer Hoxworth, an old flame of Miss Andrews, with an enthusiasm that can only be traced to a probable conviction that he was acting in another movie. Although he appears frequently, at one time arriving with a complete New England house boxed and numbered, his effect on the central action is non-existent. Trumbo and Taradash obviously intended Hoxworth to pump some life into the sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three...