Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best lectures I've seen have been the rare combination of performance and personal connection with the audience. Professors with a real enthusiasm for the subject can draw in everyone in the room. And once the feeling of being part of a member of a faceless crowd is lifted, the stigma of lecture disappears and the learning begins...
...just a happy coincidence that renewed enthusiasm for Star Wars has been steadily growing the past few years? That's what the skillful imagemakers at Lucasfilm claim. The renaissance began in 1991 with the publication of Heir to the Empire, an original Star Wars novel continuing the adventures of Luke Skywalker and company; it spent a total of 29 weeks on various New York Times best-seller lists. Like a trip wire on the zeitgeist, the novel provided the first glimmer of the public's fresh hunger for a franchise that had largely lain dormant since the mid-'80s. Indeed...
However, he continued, there are drawbacks to so much unexpected student enthusiasm. The increased enrollment has forced Kirshner to schedule more sections and he may have to change the lecture location...
...From my admittedly limited discussion with colleagues, I do not see any diminution in enthusiasm for the Core, and I think the somewhat smaller number of courses this year is part of the normal variation," Pilbeam writes in an e-mail...
...there is something unsettling about his talk. Toward the end of his speech, I make the disturbing observation that the audience's enthusiasm is inversely proportional to the complexity of the thoughts being conveyed. Only in the rare moments when Wellstone takes the nuances out of his discussion and tones it down into soundbites and bumper sticker phrases does the crowd really let him have...