Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What You Deserve." In all his speeches, Harry Truman cast himself in a political role which he hoped would win him sympathy. He pictured himself as the underdog fighting alone. As his crowds increased in numbers and outward enthusiasm, his attacks on Congress grew bolder. "If I'm wrong," he shouted, "you will have a chance to attend to me later on. But if I'm not wrong, you ought to attend to somebody else. . . You get just what you deserve...
Something or Nothing. White-faced and nervous, faced with a critical and hostile Assembly, Bidault showed little stomach for the job. The deputies would not hear from him "either expressions of enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees...
...chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...
...Still way is scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...
...learned that Secretary George Marshall did not share Joe Stalin's enthusiasm for a U.S.-Soviet meeting, at least not on the terms that Wallace had laid down. To 8,000 University of California students he cried: "I have no doubt that many of you felt, on reading Stalin's reply, that there was a new ray of hope in the world." Then he bitterly denounced Marshall and the U.S. State Department...