Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lecturer in English Richard C. Marius echoed Engell's enthusiasm for change in the department, going so far as to state that changing the general exam is "a good idea...
Right off the bat, Anderson confirms the rumors, and not without a modicum of enthusiasm. He's more than happy to tell me that a Reubens show is in the works, and that the show will probably be a half-hour sitcom. At the earliest, it would be a 1997 -'98 mid-season replacement, he offers, but he can't say much beyond logistics. He explains that "the project is in its embryonic stages," and as much as he'd like to tell me more about it, at this point there's very little...
Communist propaganda called this work "patriotic work." In spite of despicable living conditions, an incredible number of people gathered to work hand in hand. However, enthusiasm quickly subsided as a result of poor working conditions. The powerful songs of the brigadiers ("Rocks will fall, in the brigadier's work!") slowly died together with the abstract idea that their work was benefitting society...
...very membership of these organizations, nothing could have been categorized as a volunteer act. Patriotic work became a requirement for professional or academic advancement. My father was characterized thus in his "Note on Attitude" that was necessary for his promotion as a chemical engineer: "He participated with great enthusiasm and zeal at the patriotic work with the students. He answered to all the calls of the party, putting the interest of the community in front of his personal interests...
...1820s the interest in commemorating political heroes had largely dried up, and there was no enthusiasm for history painting. Landscape held center stage. Then as now, Americans were incurious about their own history; they were fixated on the future. The sense of commemoration would hardly revive until after the murder of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Lincoln's death seems to mark the point at which Americans began to feel a public emotion that, in their pride at their newness and possibility, they had not felt before. It was nostalgia, a sense of irretrievable loss. Some writers and painters, at least...