Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of the Apollo 16 astronauts. He has also asked them to bring back urine samples from a test to be conducted during the flight, and is confident that a comparison of the two levels will prove significant. "Those urine bags," says Berry with a researcher's peculiar enthusiasm, "are pure gold...
...terribly surprising that a number of quite gifted actors have banded together to produce plays that will help them attract that adorational enthusiasm. The group is called LARC (for Loose Actors Revolving Company), and it includes George C. Scott, George Grizzard, Anne Bancroft, Blythe Danner, Colleen Dewhurst, Julie Harris, Frank Langella, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Rod Steiger, Pat Hingle, Richard Kiley, Dustin Hoffman and quite a few others. They have, and they feel they ought to have, the determining voice on scripts. This is an error of the first order; actors are to scripts as seals are to fish...
...with them long. More than anything else in the world he despised such "smelly little orthodoxies," and his mind was at its most joyous and acute in sniffing out the contradictions in official humbug. Unlike Koestler and Borkenau--both former Communists--Orwell had never been able to muster any enthusiasm for intellectual hooliganism; an Orwell who had become convinced that it was necessary would have been a broken man. It seems likely that he would have withdrawn from politics and simply let go of the world...
...time seemed right to prove the faithless wrong, and a drive to widen the Center's narrow confines took over at the Loeb. A spirit of enthusiasm took hold and began to spread to include not only the rest of the University, but also inspired plans to branch out into the Cambridge community as well...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The Harvard Advocate and the Leverett House Opera Society produced more and more positive results, and by December, scheduling was definitely coordinating the HDC's usual theatre slots with the performances planned by the other organizations. At the University level the problems remained, but with endless enthusiasm, mysterious energies and cool-headed planning, these obstacles have gradually vanished...