Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another concern for Starr is the fate of public institutions--an interest that seems to have grown out of his abiding belief in a non-ideological liberalism. Liberals, he says, recognize the usefulness of both public and private institutions; but Starr expresses concern that currently, "the enthusiasm for the private sector is obscuring a lot of the ways in which public institution create a sense of civic life...
Another positive factor is the professors' enthusiasm, students say. "Because it is an experiment, they are taking more time to make it run smoothly," says one student. "I think they make an extra effort to be accessible to the students," adds another...
Despite the excitement of the moment, the professors are aware that their colleagues are not all so enthusiastic. And enthusiasm, they add, is a prerequisite. "It's not the kind of thing you push someone into," says Rakoff...
...professors feel the experimental section will make students better lawyers. If everything works as planned, the students should go into their second year with as much doctrine, more knowledge, and more enthusiasm than the students in the other three first-year sections...
...hope is not just the implication that promoting a woman to a new position is commonplace--though in the city of Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, the matter-seems far less debatable than elsewhere. Rather, it neatly avoids the undertones that unavoidably creep into more extensive coverage. The wild enthusiasm over Sally Ride's flight wasn't sexist; but the most scrupulous editor couldn't avoid addressing the question of whether it was more difficult, somehow, for a woman to orbit the Earth; whether the milestone was womanhood's for evolving to that point, or NASA's for abandoning...