Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aside from the continuing gender gap, election commission co-chair and returning council member Benjamin W. Hulse '99 said he was pleased with the overall enthusiasm level in this year's election...
...students gathered in the streets outside the houses but were quickly dispersed by the Harvard police (with aid from Cambridge officers). This swift action was equally unfortunate. Students were not blocking traffic but merely extending the party-like atmosphere to the street. We don't see enough spontaneous, carefree enthusiasm here at Harvard; tutors and the police they summon should think twice before destroying...
...while several students in the audience beseeched the candidates to start talking about the issues in more concrete terms, others praised the debates for helping to raise the level of enthusiasm surrounding the elections...
...several students present last night said that in spite of the increased enthusiasm, the turnout for the debates was still disappointingly...
DIED. BURGESS MEREDITH, 89, chameleon-like actor who performed the highbrow and lowbrow with equal enthusiasm and success; in Malibu, Calif. His Mio in Winterset (1936) simmered with earnest indignation; his Penguin in TV's Batman was gloriously over the top. He played the gentle George in Of Mice and Men, the careworn coach in Rocky and even did a gravelly voice-over for Skippy peanut butter. Meredith defended his quirky choices, saying, "I'm a man moved by the rhythms of his time, so I'll just take amusement at being a paradox...