Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collaboration, in a moment of Beckett's despair for the fate of his efforts, Seaver blurts, "But Mr. Beckett. You're crazy! Don't you realize who you are? Why...you're a thousand times more important than...Albert Camus, for example!" We can chalk this up to youthful enthusiasm, but upon mature consideration Seaver begins his quasihagiographical introduction: "Samuel Beckett is, in my opinion, one of the two or three most important writers of the twentieth century." Isn't there enough of this on the flyleaf...
Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...
...supporters restrained their enthusiasm, however, pending later returns from Ohio and Illinois...
...Quad, there appeared to be more enthusiasm among Briggs residents watching the returns when the pretzels were passed out than when results were announced...
...years," says Grossman. "The community was not best served. It had been dawning on them for years; they just never did anything about it," he says. "A lot is going to be heard from the Extension School in the years to come," "I think Shinagel brings a real enthusiasm to the program and a knowledge of its direction," Shinagel says...