In one of his few prestige projects, "Carnegie Hall," from 1947, he found an appropriate outlet for his artistic enthusiasms.
For Løve, the character is an avatar for her brother; for the audience, the character is an avatar for themselves – or at least the wide-eyed iteration of themselves that once believed they would turn their artistic enthusiasms into an actual, bankable profession.
In Potamkin's final period, his artistic and philosophical enthusiasm for movies was matched by political principle (in the wake of the Depression, he became a Marxist), and his later work anticipates other recent developments in criticism.
When Mr. Honeck took charge in the fall of 2008, he brought boundless enthusiasm and artistic authority to an institution in need of both.
(Mark Cuddy, Geva's artistic director, said the enthusiasm for the show among Rochester backers was immediate: "It was the easiest million dollars I've ever raised").
It is a sign of artistic director Mike Bradwell's enthusiasm for it that he sought coproducers and spaces that could accommodate its sweep: it opened at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh and now transfers to London's Hampstead Theatre.
And true to her own artistic leanings and personal enthusiasms, Ms. Giannini's Rome is not focused on the tourist route.
But he did have enthusiasm from the artistic community.
From our earliest seasons, Wally's amazing generosity was exceeded only by his cheerful optimism in the face of all our challenges, his constant encouragment of and enthusiasm for new artistic projects, his mischevious and wicked sense of humor, and the zest and joie de vivre he brought to every phase of our growth.
With five artistic directors of widely divergent enthusiasms and a collective disdain for rules by which mainstream theater is created and marketed in this country, the ensemble is affectionately referred to in its hometown as the Luneys.
