Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholars and politicians whom the Institute seeks to bring together have been threatening to fly apart entirely. The university community has been heard in public debate, and it has made it clear that it is dissatisfied with the performance of the government. Washington, in turn, has evinced little enthusiasm for the academics' appearance as public figures. At a teach-in at Harvard last summer a speaker, Professor Staughton Lynd of Yale, suggested that the President was insane and was vigorously applauded. Meanwhile, in a capital once overrun with professors, academic credentials seem now to be treated more as a disease...
IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise...
...renewed or simply reshuffled, conscription will continue to be conscription-a compulsory enrollment of men in the military service. And like it or not, Americans will continue to face it-grimly. As Cal State's draft-facing Gary Wilson said last week: "I'll go, but without enthusiasm...
...other actions, the delegates also: ¶Elected as their new moderator the Rev. Ganse Little, 62, of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, a dynamic Biblical preacher whose close relatives include five Presbyterian ministers. Little is a strong ecumenist who mixes his interest in theology with enthusiasm for pro football...
Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman, whose works are uncompromising vertical stripes, and Ad Reinhardt, whose severely dark-hued abstracts look almost jet black...