Word: enthusiasm
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...never been able to sing very well. My pitch is, you know, off. But I've always enjoyed hearing composers sing their stuff. Some songwriters like Harold Arlen have great voices. But others--they may not be quite as off-pitch as I, but the important thing is the enthusiasm. And what I like about listening to the stuff was the enthusiasm of the young writer. It's genuine energy and joy in both the voice and the piano...
...authors' encyclopedic knowledge without ever becoming stuffy. The only dissonant note relates to security issues. Large parts of southern Afghanistan are still too dangerous for foreigners, where fighting continues between U.S. forces and remnants of the Taliban, and bomb attacks have taken place in Kabul. At times, the authors' enthusiasm for their subject appears to make them downplay these issues, as when they assert somewhat too dismissively: "Kabul is a city of several million people ... and the percentage chance of being a victim is tiny." But Omrani and Leeming also do the country a service by pointing out what ought...
...sports. The Eliot House IM secretary, he was a driving force behind the Eliot win in the 2004 Straus Cup. His personal dedication—he was known to practice and play a series of different sports for five hours a day—was complemented by an infectious enthusiasm that drew others in the House to participate, friends said...
...addition to being a real economic problem, the debt has become a very important psychological problem for the people of Mexico. A person or a country can work with greater enthusiasm if they can see a light at the end of the tunnel. But if they see that however many efforts and sacrifices they make, there seems to be no way out, a problem of despondency arises...
...science. The changes attracted both advertisers and readers (current weekday circ. 1,035,426). Veteran Times Correspondent and Editor Harrison Salisbury insists that Rosenthal "did not like the four-section paper--he fought it tooth and nail. But when the die was cast, he threw himself into it with enthusiasm and inventiveness." Says Rosenthal: "We were on the way out of business. What I had to do was change the paper without changing it--before it atrophied...