Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound like perverse nostalgia to go hear such an old man, but for most What Is To Be Done readers, Goodman is beyond nostalgia. And the word is that Goodman plays with an ageless enthusiasm. The What Is To Be Done swing reporter got it from the source this summer. She heard Goodman play at Carnegie Hall, where he handled his clarinet like a greased weasel. His upbeat has not come down. His aging fans maybe did not get up and dance as legend says they did in the Thirties, but they did clap and stomp in their seats. Swing...
Penina Glazer, dean of faculty at Hampshire, said yesterday she had witnessed unanimous enthusiasm among both students and faculty for Simmons' appointment...
Some of the other skits were hard to follow. Even the actors, who read from scripts, seemed to lose their place at times, and much of the show was improvised. But while the amateurism of the production is allowable--because it is compensated for by the enthusiasm and humor of the troupe--the amateurism of the political presentation is not so easily dismissed. As is too often the case with much leftist rhetoric, their pronouncements were marked by oversimplification of the social issues...
...been good because the writing has usually come in lovely light bursts of very funny lines. Sue Ann, played with genius by Betty White, flashes a domestic smile as if about to explain how to remove coffee stains; she eyes a man in the room and exclaims with sweet enthusiasm, "What a hunk!" Mary's humor was usually reactive; the funny one-liners revolved around her. Often they concerned her war against her own Wasp primness and repression. "I always wash my hair before I go to the hair dresser," she once confessed disconsolately. "When ever anyone...
...confession, Gullis explained that he ignored the real results because he was carried away by enthusiasm for his hypothesis: "I was so convinced of my ideas that I simply put them down on paper." But Hamprecht, who had no reason to distrust Gullis when he signed four of the original papers as a coauthor, is still puzzled. He feels Gullis-or any researcher-should know that "lies in science have short legs." That is, they cannot outrun the truth...