Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experimenter," says James Plaut '33, the original director of the ICA, "but he's the right kind of experimenter. He approaches things with great enthusiasm, but also with thorough knowledge and great calm." Linda Stux, owner and director of the Stux Gallery on Newbury St., echoes those sentiments. "The ICA has changed tremendously," she says. "Ross is very accessible and open-minded, and he's using the ICA to focus on the good artists here in Boston. His energy level is so high, it's contagious. There's a real feeling that something is happening in Boston, the art scene...
...certainly feel very encouraged by the Commission's report," Director of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '57 said yesterday. "It's now very important for people to take advantage of the enthusiasm...
...talk in the SPICE rack, and when they go out for food, their choice of eatery is understood and unvarying: Jimmy Tsang's Chinese restaurant in Shadyside. Any suggestion that hacking is the least bit odd makes them bridle. Says Large: "Hacking just means doing something with enthusiasm. I know more about farming than the average person knows about computers, but I don't view farmers as strange people wrapped up in their own culture...
...selection of the millionaire Spanish-speaking lawyer was greeted with restrained enthusiasm by many of his former congressional colleagues. Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists...
While the enthusiasm behind the club system apparently remains strong, many clubs, especially the nonselective ones, suffer from precarious economic states when they do not fill their quota of members. "The open clubs have the hardest time because they are susceptible to last minute "pull-outs," and get greater variance than the selective clubs," said Wister Wood, president of Cap and Gown, a co-ed selective club. At one point in CURL's development, the college extended an open invitation to the eating clubs to become financially supported by the university. "Essentially, they wanted to buy the clubs out, which...