Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first clue to a scavenger hunt that took Brian all over his room. "Each note I found contained a clue, a chocolate heart, and one thing written on it that Jeanne loves about me," Brian fondly remembers. The notes expressed everything that Jeanne loved about Brian: his kiss, his enthusiasm, his taste in women and his purple sweater...
Many have suggested that most of what goes on in schools is a meaningless waste of time. Meanwhile, 99% of children, both rich and poor, have, with enthusiasm and efficiency, but without any formal teaching, taught themselves to speak their native tongue. And then in schools, they are forced to memorize and regurgitate and are certified by the rigid, demeaning, coercive, boring pseudo-academic institutions they attend. A few schools, by using only interesting material like newspapers, games, comic books, art, music and talk, have shown us how to stop schooling and start educating. They've eliminated formal assessment, stopped...
While the crowd that filled the Orpheum Theatre looked like a combination of displaced Phish followers and graying Deadheads still mourning the death of Jerry, they brought a kind of enthusiasm that is only found in smoke-filled concert halls. As Victor Wooten, legendary bassist for the Flecktones, threaded his way through the masses outside the enterance unnoticed, I began to wonder if anybody knew exactly what they were there for, or if what they were smoking was really that good. Of course, it could have something to do with the fact that Wooten is about 5'4" and just...
...String Cheese Incident's last number, which dragged on for over twenty minutes, everybody's buzz was wearing off. However, when Bela Fleck and the Flecktones finally took the stage, spirits rose anew. The crowd was up on its feet, stomping and clapping with an enthusiasm that didn't ebb until the end of the show. Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten and Roy "Future Man" Wooten have been playing together since 1988, and are pioneers of their art form. They were joined by Jeff Coffin, a phenomenal horn player whose saxophone mastery was right at home on stage with the other...
...parallel between Bartoli and her signature role as Cinderella in Rossini's Cenerentola. Bartoli's story, however, is quickly overshadowed and nearly buried by the more colorful personalities that she encounters. After a lazy dialogue between the author and Bartoli, we meet Bartoli's doctor, who speaks "with the enthusiasm of someone who had just glimpsed the Zabar's deli counter for the first time," while looking at Bartoli's oscillating vocal folds through a tube while singing a high F. The introduction of each new personality takes the author on tangents that lead farther and farther from Bartoli...