Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Booters kept pressing Wesleyan to the last minute. Terry Jackson, the Wesleyan coach, said Harvard's perseverance and enthusiasm is the mark of a winning team, despite the fact that this is a rebuilding year for Harvard...
...sports and especially in the Ivy League the intangible human elements of dedication, sacrifice, and enthusiasm seem to differentiate the winning from the losing teams...
Practice sweats, equipment, and access to the Harvard trainers in Dillon Field House provided as a result of last year's athletic merger, are reasons for the team's enthusiasm...
British voters greeted Wilson's announcement with about as much enthusiasm as they would show for a soccer game between two fourth-division losers. For them, the campaign must seem frustratingly déjà vu. It was only seven months ago that they went to the same polls to vote for the same parties on what may appear to them to be the same issues. Britain's problems, however, have grown considerably worse since then. The country not only faces what all party leaders agree is the worst economic crisis in 40 years, but also is suffering...
...Hirshhorn collection has always been controversial, partly because nobody except Abram Lerner, its director, and Hirshhorn has seen everything in it. Hirshhorn has been collecting longer than the Museum of Modem Art, and with hardly less money at his disposal. The tone has been one of impetuous enthusiasms and voracity, rather than the historically balanced connoisseurship a great museum needs. Thus Hirshhorn's enthusiasm for De Kooning has resulted in a superb group of early De Koonings, whereas some other key abstract expressionists, notably Pollock, are represented by weak or indifferent works. So although the works on view...