Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fascination with the camera's potential is evident in all Stieglitz's early prints. In "Sun Rays--Paula--Berlin" (1899), he was seized with the camera's ability to capture the texture of wallpaper and the bands of light broken by a venetian blind. In his enthusiasm, the young Stieglitz photographed at night and in the rain--things he had been told were impossible...
...memo that crossed Lyndon Johnson's desk sounded a disturbing note. Written by an aide who had just returned from a tour of the West and Midwest, it reported that the Great Society has yet to kindle any great enthusiasm in the nation as a whole. "People just aren't going to get excited or go crusading for an antipollution program, for beautifying America, even for bettering its educational standards," warned the aide. Most Americans endorse these goals, he concluded. They just don't get stirred up by them...
...opera is still a rarity outside New York and one or two other cities. And financially, American opera is still precarious, compared with the government-subsidized houses of Europe; Austria, for instance, spends more on the Vienna State Opera than on its foreign service. But there is genuine popular enthusiasm in the U.S.-and New York's Metropolitan is responding to it in launching its national touring company. Opera, says Conductor Thomas Schippers, is in the midst of a "wild renaissance...
...Monks & Mothers. The many camera-toting tourists who joined the lederhosen-and dirndl-clad Bavarians were welcomed by the Löwenbräu representatives with more than the usual enthusiasm. Reason: 582-year-old Löwenbräu, the largest Bavarian brewery, is pressing exports harder than ever. Its domestic sales are concentrated in Bavaria (well-entrenched regional breweries dominate elsewhere in Germany) and Bavarian consumption is flattening out despite the low cost of a pint bottle of beer (13?). Löwenbräu's rising exports to 100 nations now account...
...calmness cannot begin to mask the pervading enthusiasm that he brings to the drama of charting new paths along a scientific frontier−a frontier that he sees expanding indefinitely. "We're going to find man flying in space for as long as a year some time in the future," he predicts. "The doom-and-gloom bit about man's inability to perform in a hostile environment has been vastly overplayed." His optimism, however, does not exceed his engineering caution. "We're doing all this within the realm of logic, precision and nature," he insists...