Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among some children's advocates, enthusiasm has faded for homegrown, experimental approaches. In 1988 Lisbeth Schorr and her husband, National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr, wrote Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, which enthusiastically described 24 new programs for children. Today half of them are gone, and Schorr has had a change of heart about what such initiatives can accomplish. "Foundations fund innovative programs for several years with the idea that when they work, public funds will pick up the cost and continue the program," she says. "But that hasn't happened for years. It's an illusion...
Latham says that the response to Kirshner's fundraising shows the merit of the Magellan project and Kirshner's enthusiasm...
...overturn the neo-utopianism of the Wired generation, that's all the more reason to attend closely to it. For though his history of technological "revenge effects" ranges freely over the past two centuries, most of his examples take a healthy dose of air out of today's overinflated enthusiasm with high tech...
Perhaps the dancers themselves instigate drowsiness. Robert Wallace (Prince Desire) leaps amazingly and dances divinely, but he is still missing something. The sparkling enthusiasm that lit up some of Boston Ballet's previous productions, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Hot and Cool," simply cannot be found in his graceful yet lackluster style...
Most important to the success of "preventive defense," Perry said, is the enthusiasm of the American people...