And while a solid two-thirds majority still see traditional university-based study as a good route to a chosen career, over half are enthusiastic about less expensive part-online courses.
William G. Young, an actuary from Norwalk, Conn., who practices clarinet an hour every evening, arranged to be in a chamber group with his brother-in-law, Harry Kaplan, a bassoonist and internist from Towson, Md . Ahalf-dozen enthusiastic members of their family descended on Baltimore to hear them perform.
One recipient, a businessman who is half-English and half-American, said the enthusiastic reaction to Ms. Swire's note simply illustrated the low romantic standards of Englishmen.
Vigorous and enthusiastic after half a century, he shows visitors through his cellars and presides over tastings of his newest wines, still in barrels.
"This gave us pause," Mr. Ansolabehere of M.I.T. said, "because half of us were enthusiastic about the electronic machines going in".
When it comes to recommending the job to students and their younger selves, this type is less enthusiastic – only half would do so, compared with three-quarters of "practitioners".
"We thought it would be a flash in the pan – half a dozen very enthusiastic individuals who'd been pushing the case, and then it would die a death".
The title of Mr. Carax's film is a French expletive that is also the name of its main character, a subterranean half-human played with enthusiastic comic zeal by the director's usual lead actor, Denis Lavant.
Mr. Short is really the opposite of a smoothie in the way he delivers lyrics in enthusiastic bursts, half-belting, lapsing into speech-song and occasionally popping up from his seat and grandly waving his arms.
Dressed in thrift store robes and fake beards cut from plastic grocery bags, the Council's half-dozen members took enthusiastic part in what they called DARP-ing Drunk-Assed Role Playing.
Page C3 A FADING NOTE OF DOWNTOWN JAZZ A good, older wind blew through the Knitting Factory on Tuesday night, when Nasheet Waits and his band played for an audience that was half rapt, half noisy and enthusiastic for jazz that was dynamic and high impact, Nate Chinen writes.
