Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, eleven TIME correspondents in bureaus around the world found similar signs of lava, smoke and fire wherever Rostropovich has wandered. In Jerusalem, Isaac Stern talked to TIME'S Robert Slater about "the intensity, the sheer eruptive force behind Rostropovich's enthusiasm." In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov interviewed Leonard Bernstein, who recalled how Rostropovich first came to dinner a decade ago, bringing "records, tapes, scores and messages from Shostakovich." Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo went to question Rostropovich and to watch his orchestral rehearsals in his newly adopted city. Recalling...
...reader is always aware of the author's presence, but for the most part he is an engaging companion, an outsider allowed fleetingly on the inside of a closed world, and unabashed in love with it. Unfortunately, enthusiasm can on occasion become condescension, most annoyingly with regard to the female dancers ("she's so sweet you could sip her through a straw"), but such lapses of taste are rare. More often, Mazo brings fragments of the life sharply into focus with his knack for daring imagery ("feet flash out and back like darting fish"), and what could have been either...
...subordinates, the frugs and polkas of his rivals and enemies are all perfectly timed and performed in Le Carré's works; the choreographer does indeed know his nation and its people. Nevertheless, the thoroughly English writer relies a bit too heavily on foreign literary sources. Turgenev is a longtime enthusiasm, and Balzac is a novelist toward whom he is idolatrous. The Frenchman, insists Le Carré, is unparalleled for "sheer narrative thrust: everything has a material connection. There's no style, just fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined cast: "I can see myself, like Balzac, inquiring...
...Many people will have to take part with enthusiasm" to create the new core, Rosovsky said. He added that some teachers on the Faculty may have to "redirect" their energy and perhaps reexamine their priorities...
...casting his dampened enthusiasm aside, Savage continues to play, and play well. The program has turned him off, the lack of publicity has bothered him and he has felt at times as though he wasn't getting anything out of football. Yet he still plays...