Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night of the presidential debate, like a sort of gala high-rise tenement. Tiers of balconies, one on every floor, overlook the lobby. They were festooned that night with American flags and sheets emblazoned with Republican slogans, and the faithful leaned out over each ledge to cheer Ronald Reagan when he returned from the debate: "Four more years! Four more years...
...debate pieces on each evening newscast prepared audiences for a struggling Mondale, and a television-wise president. Instead, the President came across not too wise in television and not too wise in much else, for that matter, and so Mondale was declared the victor. Democrats finally had something to cheer about...
Almost any other year, the Tigers would have been nearly universally cheered, for no sports town has been more forbearing and no city deserves more cheer. Sixteen seasons have gone by since the Tigers of Al Kaline and Denny McLain won the World Series, and the fans have withstood some bleak years. In Detroit, there appear to be only good times or bad. Record profits or deepening recessions. Windfalls or layoffs. When the Tigers were winning every day in April and May, it occurred to some that they could not possibly have been more in step with the city (unless...
Mondale may have too much ground to pick up in the next month to pull our Presidential victory, but his surprisingly strong debate performance was not offered in vain. In a campaign reason in which Democrats have had remarkably little to cheer about, Mondale has finally given his party a reason to cheer. His quick and successful rhetorical jabs at an unusually slow-witted Reagan has worked, in a number of ways, to steam the seemingly unstoppable erosion away from the Democratic Party nationwide...
Outpourings of nationalist cheer have occurred before. Many historians, from Henry Adams to Arthur Schlesinger, have postulated that the U.S. undergoes regular historical cycles 20 to 30 years long, periods of great social combustion alternating with quiescence, change followed by consolidation. After the War of 1812 and its embargoes, the frontier opened up, the economy took off, American fractiousness subsided, and the extraordinary era of good feelings commenced, lasting for more than a decade. The 1920s coincided with a less constructive but perhaps giddier national mood that found expression in the election of two laissez-faire Presidents...