Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion or the occasion rose to Balanchine's spirits. At 68, four times divorced, czar of his own school of ballet and highly disciplined troupe, Balanchine has long been known for his total dedication to his work. But in the last six weeks, he doubled his efforts and enthusiasm, overseeing every detail of the festival and choreographing nine completely new ballets. He was at his happiest in his shirt sleeves at rehearsals, positioning his dancers and instructing them by singing out "Slow-slow-slow-one-two-three" and stepping through each part himself...
...time has come. He has already successfully tested small models of the plane in wind tunnels at Ames and sent other models aloft on radio controlled subsonic flights. Building a full-scale prototype would be costly and would undoubtedly involve difficult engineering problems, but NASA apparently shares Jones' enthusiasm for the plane. It recently awarded a contract for studies of the antisymmetric design to Boeing, the frustrated contractor for the vetoed American...
Last week Hall said that "right now we believe the Press is stronger than it has been at any time in the past few years," and that he hoped with "tremendous enthusiasm" that "the things we have started will grow to make the Press great...
...HALL'S ENTHUSIASM is not just paternal praise for his new program. Others have concurred with his evaluation...
...spite of Terrill's attempts to communicate the spirit in which the Chinese embrace their slogans, it remains a puzzling phenomenon (for us.) Before we understand it, we shall have to know how the spirit of the rhetoric gets transmitted to the children. And for those Chinese whose revolutionary enthusiasm flags, we want to know the spirit in which criticism of them is given and accepted. Is this spirit culturally-cultivated, and thus relatively consistent in the population, or does it depend on the individual? Do married men and women really live holding their political responsibilities above their family obligations...