Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARLY IN MARCH, Harvard's fourth annual Women's History Week drew substantial attendance and enthusiasm, all the more fervent because such scholarship is so rare here...
Nadkarni traces his compulsive enthusiasm to his family, where he says he learned the "spirit of brotherhood" under the influence of Ghandian principles his father brought from India...
Nadkarni became president of Winthrop's House committee, as well as House athletic secretary. He takes credit for helping create Winthrop's campas reputation as a "high school house" fraught with enthusiasm and spirit. Many Harvard students look cynically on this environment, but Nadkarni expresses pride, seeing his role as "psyching people...
When pressed to reveal the secret to his success, Fleming admits it is his "tightly organized" lectures and enthusiasm while teaching that draw the crowds. Nonetheless, he refuses to take all the credit and modestly suggests that it is the subject matter--intellectual history--that brings the hordes of students...
Then Congressman Wilbur Mills, the capital's leading tax legislator, paid a visit to the White House. In a couple of leisurely circuits around the Rose Garden, Mills explained how many times Kennedy would have to say no and to whom. Kennedy's enthusiasm for tax reform waned. And in the end, his tax program centered on major tax cuts and very minor tax reforms...