Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions, Stella's work seemed exemplary. No young artist's oeuvre had ever been so exhaustively discussed, or used to support such a variety of critical positions. As a result, when enthusiasm for " '60s-style" abstraction started waning at the end of the '60s, Stella's prestige began to falter. What happened to him when he began to move out of the "reductionist" aesthetic that his work had done so much to create? "Stella Since 1970,". a show...
...invading Israelis were greeted with enthusiasm in towns populated by Christian Lebanese, who hate the Palestinians and view them as occupying forces. At the same time, Israeli intelligence made contact with Christian Lebanese leaders in the north and asked them not to seize the occasion of the fighting in the south to launch new attacks against the Syrian army and Palestinian fighters in Beirut and the north; if they did, it might force Syria to respond to the Israeli invasion. The Syrians were disinclined to do so, since their forces are no match for the Israelis', but at week...
Just three months stand between Scott Turow and what will probably prove a far greater source of pride: his J.D. degree. With a job to look forward to, and without his former enthusiasm for academics, there is little to hold Turow's interest in the Law School in the meantime. And plainly, Turow is looking forward to working in the U.S. Attorney's office--he says being a prosecutor will "renew that 1L feeling of 'How in God's name am I going to make it through all these commitments?'" Most of all, though, his new job should afford Turow...
...hours they spend staring straight ahead; a book about destroying the tube can be a nice assuager of guilt. And Mander, a former advertising and public relations agent who grew disenchanted with his meal ticket in the late 1960s, exhorts with all the zeal of the convert and enthusiasm of the initiate. He rattles on like a college freshman who has just been alerted to the difference between illusion and reality. In fact, Mander argues that TV created this difference: "Unlike ordinary life, in which whatever you see actually exists outside you before you let it in through your eyes...
...lack of enthusiasm on the part of Faculty members and student ambivalence on the idea of increasing the academic role of the Houses has inhibited the educational policy subcommittee, Wang said...