Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines were still unknown quantities, but eight other Japanese cities were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...
...over-enthusiast here apparently stepping sideways from his shell into the water is actually pushing his shell away from the dock. He continued to push until clear and, still dry, rowed gleefully up and down the Charles, cautiously avoiding Blake Dennison, singles coach, the crew, construction debris, and other over-enthusiasts who were also rowing happily about in the mocha waters...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...
...says, "the backs do all the thinking and have all the fun. In 'Rugger,' I'm in the game. I get a chance to take part in the tactics, and even to make like a fullback and score." Last week came a triumphal moment for Rugger Enthusiast Vincent Jones: the Oxford-Cambridge game, called simply "the varsity match...
...Brahmaputra Valley had not yet brought relief to New Delhi. In the dusty streets, bullocks steamed and lepers drowsed beside their begging bowls; in his office, a peevish Prime Minister grumbled about curdled milk, loudly complained about a badly designed public building, ticked off a Hindi language enthusiast in testy Hindi, finally flounced off for an hour's relaxation at a private screening of Danny Kaye's Knock on Wood...