Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disorganized South Carolinian who could never get his lab in order or his correspondence answered. He paints a somewhat more ambiguous picture of Good, a zealot who starts his working days in the predawn hours when most of his colleagues are asleep. Hixson recognizes that Good, who combines unbridled enthusiasm with a flair for publicity, may have contributed to a feeling by Summerlin that he would be letting S.K.I, down if his experiments flopped...
...Jewish writer, Howe said, neither preserves the "religious mysticism and enthusiasm" of his forebears, no possesses firm roots in American culture. Such an absence of place, he added, cripples the writer of fiction, but wonderfully serves the Jewish poet...
David Grayson '72, a teaching fellow in Music, said yesterday Vosgerchian is "a really incredible person. She has tremendous energy and enthusiasm, and a fresh outlook on everything. She's a very responsive teacher...
Martin Scorsese learned this fundamental principle of suspense sometime after his first movie, Mean Street. He has an obsession with two things--the street and violence--and he seems to have a very real, accurate sense of both. But in his debut, his enthusiasm for his subject overwhelmed any possibility of creating a tightly structured movie of sustained interest. Instead, he presented us fistfight after gunbattle after fistfight ad infinitum, and the final effect was to numb rather than involve us. Because the flow of passion had been so steady during the movie, the "climactic" shootout was hardly cathartic...
Despite general enthusiasm, Shapp supporter Josh Katz said he sees the Shapp campaign as "an exercise in futility...