Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long historical digression that verges on the paranoic. This is a problem feminist writers have had before, perhaps the unavoidable consequence of the effort to display the extent of women's oppression. But despite her extensive footnoting and bibliography, Rich begins to sound more extreme than most, her enthusiasm leading her to make contradictory and unsatisfying statements. At times, she seems to accept the household division of labor as it existed in subsistence-level lifestyles, blaming the Industrial Revolution for taking the meaning out of women's social roles. At others, she blames men in general for holding conflicting views...
...Concert Band played these provincial folk tunes with singular enthusiasm and sensitivity, although the performance did not quite match that of the Persichetti symphony. The performers showed their versatility in the opening "Normandie," played with gusto, sprightly clashes of brass and a fine ensemble, and in "Bretagne," somber and haunting with a nice, accented contrast of low brass and shrill woodwinds...
Quickly remedying this flaw, the Concert Band found its former ensemble and enthusiasm in the ending Fugue, exhibiting just the right tone color which is contained in Hindemith's orchestration. The scope of the work--17 brass, 26 reeds and 3 percussion--was all the more evident in the Symphony in B flat as the group finished with polish and convincing togetherness...
Rasenas said her squad is looking forward to a good season with new blood, a good coach and a lot of new enthusiasm...
...Watergate wafting over the Hydra-headed investigations of exported South Korean corruption currently under way in Washington. The White House cover-up to protect its guilty is still fresh in everyone's memory. Yet here is the Legislative Branch displaying, at the very least, a marked lack of enthusiasm to get to the bottom of a scandal that could badly tarnish Congress...