Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with frequent gesticulations and facial expressions, she fails to interact with the others on stage. Her performance fluctuates depending upon the scene, unlike her voice which seems locked in an interminable monotone. Haynes encounters similar difficulty. His emotions vary little throughout the performance, and he generates about as much enthusiasm for proposing marriage as he does when discussing the weather...
...adopts the new option, Harvard should make clear that it will remain just that--an option. And in spite of the prediction figures, it should restrain its public enthusiasm for the Achievement Tests and be extra careful to look at the scores in light of students' high school backgrounds. Otherwise, the Harvard name could spur colleges across the nation to take a giant step backwards...
...knew Eck was up for tenure, it was the end of an anxious wait. The end of what was for them, an unfought battle--"unfought" because the system of tenure in this college pointedly and totally excludes student opinion. In our state of satisfaction, we temporarily forgot that our enthusiasm and appreciation of Eck's teaching abilities had very little to do with the decision to award her tenure at Harvard...
...leading architectural historian calls his work "frivolous in the highest degree." A design educator says he "has the energy and enthusiasm to make the dust fly." To architecture students, he is both an idol and an idol smasher. James Wines, 51, seems to be America's only truly avant-garde architectural designer at a time when the established avant-garde-or the avant-garde establishment-has lost its way. Many eyebrows were raised, therefore, when Wines was appointed to take over this fall as chairman of the environmental and interior design department at the Parsons School of Design...
...these issues, says Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, who last week was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, succeeding Archbishop Roach. "He doesn't content himself with platitudes; he acts, and we're obliged to respond." But many U.S. Catholics have less enthusiasm for response. "I don't think the church can go back. It amazes me that they think they can do this," says Agnes Mansour, the Michigan state social services director who chose to resign as a nun earlier this year because she refused to comply with a Vatican directive that...