Word: enthusiasm
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Collins is thrilled about the newfound camaraderie, and his enthusiasm appears to be reciprocated—every time he starts his mid-rehearsal speech, the orchestra shouts “Hi Jimbo!” in unison. Although he has been in HRO since the beginning of freshman year, his musical career at Harvard began with a smattering of posters calling for hip young gunslingers to join him in a rock band—pretty unorthodox for a guy who would later become president of the biggest classical group on campus...
...with a constitutional proposal nearly immune to amendment (see article 443) that dooms the Union to the inertia of trade liberalization, and to economic muscle without any special political merit. Worst of all, the proposal is so hopelessly lengthy and technical that it is incapable of stimulating the least enthusiasm among European citizens. On February 20, 77 percent of Spaniards approved the treaty by referendum, but the turnout, at 42 percent, was the lowest of any national vote since the death of Franco...
...down and listened to it. Even when I make a record, I listen to it once or twice before it's out, and then once it's out, I don't really listen to it anymore. I didn't really take a hand in this because my enthusiasm for making records might not be what it was 20 years ago, I don't know...
...designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. pyramid and the city of Irvine in Orange County, Calif.; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Pereira, who tried to encourage style and balance in sprawling Southern California, once said, "We have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning...
Some detractors claim that the Register's local coverage, though extensive, is shallow and that its improvements are mostly technicolor dazzle. The young staff has abundant enthusiasm, but stories can be short on clarity and interpretation. A recent account, for example, explained what several zoning ordinances would not do but never explained the impact they would have. A more serious charge is made by Harry Hoiles, 69, a son of the company's founder and a former co-publisher of the Register who is embroiled in a battle to wrest control of the Freedom chain from other family members...