Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was greeted with an enthusiasm similar to that granted Christ upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of magical transformation--of the humanities. Here was the man who could bring together all of the specialists entrenched in the battlelines of literary criticism--the New Critics, the Freudian, the historical-approachers, the biographical-literati, the "high culture" mongerers, and the platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here...
...allow Congressmen to make speeches or issue press releases or titillate their constituents with inside stories." So argues Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin. His cynical point is that a congressional committee to oversee CIA operations would be a washout in five years because its members would lose their enthusiasm as soon as the CIA was no longer a big story...
...moment, at least, the war seems far away in Silva Porto, but the enthusiasm for UNITA and Savimbi is everywhere. Last Monday night he appeared at a workers' meeting in Silva Porto's Cine Teatro. Sitting behind a table, dressed in his customary fatigues and beret, he delivered a dazzling two-hour address to the more than 1,000 people who jammed the simple theater...
Several CHUL members wanted to "upgrade" the Quad Houses by using a no-choice system to place especially enthusiastic students at the Quad--as if our trouble were lack of enthusiasm. Others thought that the best way to solve our popularity problem is to remove all traces of uniqueness from the Quad houses, to make them as indistinguishable from other Houses as possible. If the same program of social engineering were proposed for Kirkland House, no doubt its residents would be equally upset. If Quad residents sometimes seem overly defensive, perhaps it is because we always end up having...
...their enthusiasm for the new deals, tour operators have filed applications with the CAB for some 4,500 separate flights. "It remains to be seen how many of these get off the ground," warns one travel executive, recalling some of the fly-by-night charter operators of the late 1940s. Thus prospective vacationers are well advised to check into the wholesaler responsible for the tour and even to make sure that they are booked into reputable hotels (most tours offer a choice...