Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Electronic Cheer. Rich's department store in Atlanta sent children monorail riding on ''the Pink Pig Flyer,'' also boasted the city's largest (65 ft.) Christmas tree, a northern white pine imported from South Carolina. The Atlanta Constitution reported that "edible ornaments are being revived''; there was hardly a tree trimmer around without a couple of gross of chocolate snowmen tucked away in reserve in hopes of having one or two unchewed examples left by Christmas...
...Saturday game, Brandeis' home-coming, marked the first time Harvard has been defeated by the Judges. Besides the home team's successful strategy, factors in the upset may have included Crimson over-confidence and a capacity Brandeis crowd led by cheer-leaders in polka-dotted panties...
With good cheer to all, Allen Ginsberg...
...varsity football team going to murder Yale this afternoon. And if you said anything different to the 500 patriots who rallied in front of Widener (a local library) last night to cheer on their finest representatives, you would have sounded soft on Yale...
Jewel Tea Economist William Tongue sums up the mood: "Where we used to have rumbling pessimism, we now have rumbling optimism." The optimism, however, is restrained: stability rather than boom is the general expectation. And stability, though preferable to a recession, is nothing to cheer about in an economy that has not boomed for five years. Says Swift & Co. Chief Economist Willard Arant: "Economists have fallen into the bad habit of thinking that if we stay even, then we aren't in a recession. But when you don't measure up to a growth trend, you are actually...