Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends fondly describe Modigliani, who emigrated from Italy in 1938 to escape anti-Jewish persecution, as a man filled with energy and enthusiasm. An indifferent dresser who fits the mold of the absentminded professor, Modigliani is known for grasping complex issues with amazing speed. For relaxation he turns to sailing, skiing and tennis, but his mind is never far from economics. He once developed an idea for a paper during a fierce tennis match against Samuelson...
...small group attended a teach-in on apartheid at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At Connecticut's Wesleyan University, some 100 protesting students were arrested. Even the University of California, Berkeley, turned out only 1,000 protesters. A student leader blamed midterm exams for the lack of enthusiasm...
...course, the coaches benefit from the enthusiasm veteran scholastic rowers have for both Harvard and Radcliffe programs...
...Graduate Center: Designed in 1949 by Walter Gropius and a group of fellow architects, the Graduate Center was in the forefront of the International movement in the United States. Located north of the Law School, it was greeted with great enthusiasm though in recent years it has fallen out of favor for its disregard for the Harvard atmosphere...
...Angeles police, eyeing their roster of unsolved crimes--4,350 murders, 2,500 rapes, 4,000 robberies and 20,000 burglaries--cannot wait to plug these cases into the state's new system. Other California lawmen share their enthusiasm. "There are a lot of people walking the streets out there who think they're home free," says Orange County Lieut. Richard Olson. "Once we get these computer systems working together, they're going to be in for a surprise...