Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Understandably, enthusiasm ran high over at normally-dour Eliot Hall last night, and no one could say too much for the competitors. "It was just wonderful. I guess we're pretty good in the water," one of the Eliot swimmers declared huskily after the marathon...
...reached a good balance between preparation and spontaneity, between attention to concerts and the more private activity of sight-reading in rehearsals. His conducting is not subtle, but it is rhythmically sure, as was shown in the complicated Stravinsky pieces. But much more important is the sense of enthusiasm which he communicates to the players, which is reflected back to the audience in performances that are alive and interesting. With careful selections of future programs, this should be an exciting year for the orchestra and its listeners...
...musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm. At one point during the rehearsal of the Third Symphony, he exhorted the strings to greater effort, rewarded them with an ecstatic cry: "There you are! And it's paradise! Such a pianissimo! Oh, to be in paradise!" Then Octogenarian Walter paused. "No," he added, "not too soon...
Archibald MacLeish's public lectures have generated widespread interest and enthusiasm. The second lecture in a series of eight based on discussions in Humanities 136 completely filled Sanders Theatre, and the two lectures have attracted a total audience of over fifteen hundred people...
...left Cambridge in the past two years, nine of them going to Route 128. This meant a loss of some 1,750 to 3,800 employees now working in outlying districts. At this late date, though, it is quite doubtful that McLaughlin can raise many eyebrows or arouse much enthusiasm, despite the importance of this problem to the city's general development...