Word: overenthusiasm
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...bite 'em. I did it too much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting at the correct answer, screaming 'That's right! That's right!' I got over that, finally...
...regards the way that the committee went about obtaining this dollar: they may have "threatened" the students with not being admitted into the advanced course, or employed similar tactics to force the deposit. However, this was probably due to overenthusiasm on the seniors' part, and is definitely not the attitude of the administration of the unit. The excitement is due only to the fact that the freshman who wrote the letter lacked the insight to understand this and went off half-cocked. Judging by his attitude towards the unit and the military in general, it is clear that his only...
...atmosphere of calm but unrelenting competition. From the moment a freshman begins to "heel" for the News, the Banner or the Lit, his life becomes a purposeful drive upward-but a drive he must pretend to ignore. "Intense, aren't you?" is the rebuke to overenthusiasm. "The thing to do," says one undergraduate, "is to drift energetically...
...respective mates would be something less than overjoyed with divorces, but, after struggling with the matter for a few years, they take a house in England until he is called forth to Trafalgar and his death. While a few of the love-seenes suffer somewhat from Miss Leigh's overenthusiasm, Olivier rescues most of them with his usual fine performance...
...TIME regrets that the statement in question gave a wrong impression, hopes that its story did not similarly err on the side of overenthusiasm...