Word: enlivening
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...School; the locale, if not all of the circumstances, conjures up Erich Segal's Love Story. Except for the few months after Lynda Johnson got married, it will be the first time since the '50s that the White House has no presidential sons or daughters running around to enliven the mansion...
...sliding downhill. As the London Times put it recently: "It used to be said that Rolls-Royce was Britain; if we stay out of Europe, Britain will be Rolls-Royce." Continental proponents of an expanded EEC make much the same argument. They reason that Britain's entry will enliven the Common Market and ultimately accelerate progress toward European unity. By contrast, British failure to gain admission would cause a period of disillusion and recrimination within the Common Market, especially if the French once more vetoed London's application. In that event, most scenarios agree, the other five members...
...blame: Those of us in positions to have moved more rapidly than we have to correct obvious abuses and shortcomings which have festered too long among us. Those responsible for instruction too long reluctant to reexamine traditional offerings and teaching methods, too little ready, not to abandon, but to enliven courses which have ceased to speak to the condition of the new young and which have failed to make attractive to them the achievement of the degree of freedom we enjoy, so painfully and slowly won. Those of various kinds, militantly on the defensive, disinclined to allow any claims...
...could trigger the military, which already is restive about the Communist threat, into its first coup in 38 years. His victory would also polarize the already socially stratified country of 9,000,000 in harshly antagonistic groups. In Latin America as a whole, a Marxist victory in Chile would enliven Fidel Castro's waning image and stand as the ultimate mockery to the U.S.'s loftily conceived but ineptly carried out Alliance for Progress. Chile's neighbors, notably Argentina, would most likely redouble their own harsh anti-Communist efforts. There is some fear among U.S. diplomats that...
...Those of us in positions to have moved more rapidly than we have to correct obvious abuses and shortcomings which have festered too long among us. Those responsible for instruction too long reluctant to re-examine traditional offerings and teaching methods, too little ready, not to abandon, but to enliven courses which have ceased to speak to the condition of the new young and which have failed to make attractive to them the achievement of the degree of freedom we enjoy, so painfully and slowly won. Those of various kinds, militantly on the defensive, disinclined to allow any claims...