Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio (52 delegates): "With Republican laymen, Willkie is the only party leader who arouses any enthusiasm. In prestige and personal appeal, he has no runner-up. But to the Republican machine, Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...
...affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems to me an empty humbug." He added: "It is a pleasure to see more faith and enthusiasm in the young men, and I thought that one of them made a good answer to some of my skeptical talk when he said, 'You would base legislation upon regrets rather than upon hopes...
Explained Leon Henderson, with the enthusiasm of a man on the trail of a big idea: "The new program is designed to give the consumer effective protection from rising living costs and at the same time vastly simplify the regulations to which the food retailer is now subject." Echoed U.S. housewives and grocers: praise...
Eliot, but seems hardly aware of the dangers a democracy incurs which too readily rejects its skeptics and suspects its individualists. Alfred Kazin's On Native Grounds ($3.75) recreates, enthusiastically, the climate of U.S. letters from the 19th Century to the present but loses, thanks to its enthusiasm, an urgently needed power of discrimination between the excellence of some contemporary authors, the hearty good intentions of others, and the mere jingoistic opportunism of still others. In Writers in Crisis ($3) Maxwell Geismar acutely dissects the U.S. writers of the past two decades, but keeps up a kind of smart...
...have had the four, rapid undergraduate years still ahead of him, but the military adventure attracted him also. The mere change and passing away saddened him in its own right, when he thought of it, but clearing out by midyears left him little time for speculation, and rush favored enthusiasm. It is easier to part with the past when one is intensely interested in the present, he decided...