Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yankee Whalers in the South Seas is a lively introduction to a fascinating subject. Yankee Author and LIFE Associate Editor A.B.C. Whipple is an enthusiast who has spent ten years poring over old ships' logs and seamen's journals, listening to the yarns still spun in old whaling towns, and chatting with whaling authorities. What he has tried for and achieved is not a history of whaling but a teaser that may send readers to other books on the subject, perhaps even to that greatly unread but incessantly discussed U.S. classic, Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
...cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs-Elysées to a gym where, in identical blue gym suits, they work out for at least an hour. After the workout he returns to his office, works until he falls...
...students manage to get an education at all, of course, it is not entirely the fault of the faculty. The typical Harvard professor is not notable for his Chipsian qualities, nor is he apt to be an enthusiast for the open house ("Do drop in any time," said one legendary professor. "Next May, for instance"). He is forever disappearing behind laboratory doors, or vanishing into the Widener stacks. Once there, he is a law unto himself...
...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...
...posterity's benefit, another Dartmouth enthusiast gouged the 11-0 score into the still-wet concrete of the colonnade wall...