Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Scientology does have beneficial effects on many people. A friend of mine gave up drugs and stealing. He began to read more, too, and seemed much more confident when speaking. One of the first things that strikes you when you visit a Scientology center is the smiling good cheer, friendliness, and poise of the people. Something works-whether it's the techniques, the power of positive thinking, or simply a function of investing so much time and money in a project that you become determined to succeed, only Scientologists know...
...Clifton Lewis, one of the city's most outspoken liberals, described his limitations: "Harrold wants everybody to be happy and grow roses and have a football ticket." Journalists at work in the state capitol press room let out a restrained cheer when the wires moved a bulletin on Carswell's defeat...
...less predictable was the strike vote taken by the Manhattan-Bronx Postal Union. Union members waiting to vote in the day-long balloting raised a cheer when the N.A.L.C. decision was announced. Before the day was over, they, too, had voted to strike...
...drop 10,000 students.' And I finally asked: 'Why, if there is an economy drive, are the students the first thing that you can dispense with?'" Reagan argues that U.C. should first turn some nonteaching professors into teaching professors-an idea that many students would cheer if it came from anyone but Reagan...
Last week New York's Metropolitan Opera offered a new Norma production with Joan Sutherland in the title role. Hardly had she finished her first duet with Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne (as Adalgisa) than the audience began to cheer and occasionally stamp and yell. The enthusiasm was fully justified. Sutherland's voice warmed toward a soaring, languorous tenderness. Horne, making one of the greatest Met debuts, showed a vocal reach and richness that exceeded nearly anybody's gasp. In Mira, O Norma, closing Act III, the two together floated along like two strings of a violin being...