Word: enthusiasm
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...every Indian collector, of course, is trying to be the next Dominique de Menil or Henry Clay Frick, whose private collections are now significant museums in Houston and New York City, respectively. But they are serious about sharing their newfound enthusiasm. Swapan Seth, an advertising executive and collector in New Delhi, rents out an empty flat every few weeks to show off his latest finds to his friends, curating the shows and hanging the pieces himself. He spends at least two hours a day reading about art, educating himself about the artists he likes and how they fit into...
...when the corporate world's enthusiasm for China was at its peak, I spent a few days in Beijing in the company of a bunch of top business executives from the U.S. and Europe. The occasion was a conference sponsored by my then employer, Fortune, and as I sat through the speeches and panels and dinners, I was repeatedly struck by the almost puppy-like devotion to the Middle Kingdom voiced by Western CEOs...
...arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating his guides, Steves gives speeches, pens a newspaper column, hosts radio and television shows, runs group tours and does all this with the boyish enthusiasm of a college student who just got his first Eurail pass. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...both for her and for the College because I think it’s only in the best interest of the students that we’ll be able to take classes with her and we’ll be able to be exposed to her mind and her enthusiasm for the material,” said former student and thesis advisee Andrew C. Coles ’09. Carpio arrived at Harvard in 2002, following the widely-publicized departure of African American studies Professors K. Anthony Appiaha and Cornel R. West ’74 for Princeton the previous...
...Harris—forever a 4:50 a.m. riser—is still visiting departments, seeking to recruit courses. Kenen is still organizing papers in her office in University Hall and working out logistical issues with administrators. And Gen Ed committee members are trying their best to ramp up enthusiasm. The attitude is a shift from the Gen Ed committee’s original outlook when they first met in the fall of 2007. “As a curriculum, as a grouping of categories, it would be hard to say that anyone was genuinely excited about...