Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term congressional elections can be pretty dull affairs when there is no presidential contest to whip up enthusiasm for platforms to accentuate party differences. The coming elections in November promise no deviation from this tradition. Despite some introductory fanfares and blatant hog-calling at state conventions, indications are that both major political parties are resolved in giving the public a rather murky presentation of the basic issues at stake...
...Feinberg," said his disciple, Fuller enthusiasm. "Fans are Cummings in Noonan night, and some are Forster Chernoff to Wellesley to find shelter...
...week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...
...20th-century Tito quickly attained similar distinction: Winston Churchill himself reported that Tito was killing more Germans than anyone else in Yugoslavia. So Allied support switched from Mihailovich to Tito. After a brief period of misty enthusiasm-he was presented as charming, kindly, courageous, only incidentally Communist and a self-made marshal-the fog of mystery lifted for good. Marshal Tito emerged as one of the Kremlin's most faithful, fanatical, and efficient proletarian proconsuls...
Phony Facade. The new Brazilian enthusiasm is industrialization. But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...