Word: enthusiasm
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Laval's part in this tragedy is recounted by the biologist Dr. Claude Levy. The Gestapo requested a round-up of French Jews over sixteen, and in their enthusiasm the French gendarmes collected them all. The Nazis hadn't expected the children, so kept them in Paris while their parents were sent off to French concentration camps. While the bureaucracy made up its mind, Pastor Bougner appealed to Laval to evacuate the children. "It's of no importance," Laval replied. "I am practicing prophylaxis." Laval's insistence is documented by a telegram he sent. Did any of the children come...
Pleased by both the women crew's prospects for this year and the growing enthusiasm for crew and women's athletics in general at Harvard, Charlotte is looking forward to another rewarding season of Radcliffe crew...
Boston Repertory Theatre is an anomaly. They are non-political, and are not organized around the dominant "great" director, as most other small companies in Boston pretend to be. The attempt is rather to present a well-balanced program with enthusiasm and a fair degree of sophistication--a refreshing change. It's nice to have a company that does theatre not to sell its actors or their heads, but merely because it is good theatre...
Richter is not an exciting conductor to watch, but he does communicate his enthusiasm to players and audience. From the very start it was clear that he was not afraid to build long phrases. The last chorus, Dona nobis pacem, was begun slowly but picked up speed in a controlled manner leading to a majestic conclusion...
...expected this from the second feature of a forty-year-old Swiss film critic and surprise may explain the enthusiasm which has greeted it. Already it has been adopted by that cultural elite which descends on one or two films a year and turns them from quiet critical successes into noisy exercises in film going chic. Most of the people who saw and admired My Night at Maud's several years back will probably see and admire La Salamandre. This is all very well, both films should be seen, but overpraise can be as fatal as underattendance. For as fully...