Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heretics (two novelettes in one volume) appeared last year, critics compared him to Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler. But, as readers of Conspirator will see, Slater does not share Koestler's determination to explore the more subtle and profound characteristics of the revolutionary man. Himself a former leftist enthusiast (he was the International Brigade's chief of operations in the Spanish war), Slater is content to dramatize his lore with such ability that few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...
Rumania's Michael, visiting sportsman-flyer and speed enthusiast, found life accelerating a little on his U.S. visit. Washington followed Manhattan; next came Dayton, Detroit, then on to Cleveland, Texas, Toledo and Manhattan again. The Governor of Michigan himself flew the ex-king over Detroit ("to show His Majesty this arsenal of democracy"). There were also less hospitable elements. Pro-and anti-Michaelites scuffled briefly in Detroit, and the State Department said it was "taking measures" in recognition of "reports of rumors of a plot...
...costs quite a chunk of change to get to the ski country. If you do have a car, chances are, you might find yourself stranded along about midnight somewhere in the New Hampshire wilderness. So with an eye to the pocketbook and comfort of the ski enthusiast, the Boston and Maine Railroad has invented the Snotrain, and the Inter-Collegiate Outing Clubs Association, the Snobus...
...sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast Aranha drove over to the Jockey Club, watched his three-year-old Itororó win a $2,000 race, and got another ovation...
President Eliot, when asked why, though a crew enthusiast, he never went to football games, answered tartly, "It's too much like a circus." That probably was at once the great drawback and beauty of the game during the Eighties. There were no forward passes and no real blocking, and yet the scores were phenomenally large. Part of the reason may be that organized defense systems were unknown, and the kicking was plentiful and accurate...