Word: gung-ho
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...eight marshals live in Lowell or South House. Kish attributed the concentration of marshals in these Houses to "gung-ho spirit," particularly in South House...
...adds sophomore winger Dave Burke--have swept aside memories of three season of disappointment, disenchantment and, last year, disaster. The difference, compared to last year, says Cleary, "is like night and day." His players echo that sentiment. Dave Burke: "Most of the trouble is behind us--we're totally gung-ho." Newly elected co-captain (along with goalie John Hynes) Graham Carter: "The end of one era is going out--the beginning of a new era is in." Sophomore goalie Wade Lau: "This group of kids is so much more spirited than last year, we'll win games on that...
...knowledge happily, he has found that tracking and desert work require a patience that is disappearing from America. He has camped out for weeks at desert airstrips with his dog Baron. "It's hard to keep the younger guys staked out like that," he laments. "They're gung-ho at the start, but two trips out is about all they can take...
...empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write a narration that attempts to fill in Willard's personality ex post facto on the sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure or begin to achieve Coppola's loftier goal of charting Willard's tailspin into psychological terror. Eventually, the voice-over commentary becomes...
...moved out of University Hall to Prince House, on Prescott St, it's out of the mainstream of the College administration. But as the only office devoted entirely to the care and feeding of freshmen, you're assured more attention here. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, brings a gung-ho enthusiasm to his job that excites and pleases many students--usually those who are as enthusiastic as he is--but sometimes turns off students with real problems who find no succor in his blandishments...