Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, it rejects the secularity to which the University rightly adheres. Second, can we rightly expect the same enthusiasm and monetary commitment for all religions' major holidays that the Christian majority engenders for Christmas? Should Passover and Ramadan become occasions for dining hall spectaculars as well...
Another student did not share this enthusiasm, though...
Last week's trip produced the most electrifying moments before a crowd that Clinton has ever experienced as President. The phenomenon resulted in part from the personality and heritage of the man himself (Clinton's mother was named Virginia Cassidy), to which the Irish responded with instinctive enthusiasm. Then too he brought a stirring message about putting aside the hatred between Catholics and Protestants that over the years has caused the violent death of some 3,000. Clinton made a promise. "To all of you who asked me to do what I could to help peace take root, I pledge...
...sound of the first movement gave way to a more florid, sweet tone in the last. Elkies was a theatrical accompanist, his elbow flying up and down with almost alarming force. If anything, he seemed too passionate, edging the saxophone into a louder range than was probably necessary. The enthusiasm of the audience, of about 50, was well merited...
...production's visual and aural effects create this feeling of exile. But for many people Prospero's renunciation of his magic represents Shakespeare giving up writing in this his final play. Paul Freeman evokes this idea in a powerful performance of Prospero's monologues: After recalling with both enthusiasm and nostalgia what his "so potent art" had once done, he says regretfully. "But this rough magic I here abjure...