Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There, Enthusiasm. By midweek, King was back in Selma, Ala., where white segregationists-unlike those in Montgomery-still had not learned the lesson of meeting nonviolence with nonviolence. Even while King was elsewhere, Selma Negroes, of whom some 3,500 already had been arrested, again lined up outside the county courthouse to register. The registration board was not scheduled to sit again until this week, but as each Negro turned away, he merely went to the end of the line. This enraged Sheriff James Clark, who started whacking about with his billy club and-without realizing the irony...
...Mississippi Bankers Association President Nat Rogers told the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce: "We must recognize that we have a problem and come to grips with it. We must obey the law, keep in step with the times, and blend our enthusiasm with realism and honesty...
...removing them, a highly complicated process involving a series of postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative due to a flying cinder or a sudden slip of a lens, or almost impossible (on a street corner, in a snowstorm); shrewd lensmen wear sunglasses...
...reason the joke caught on so well, I think, was that it contained a fatal germ of truth. Supporters flocked to the cause with an intuitive enthusiasm--but they were flocking to several different causes...
Some reasons for their enthusiasm are argued in the latest issue of Continuum, a lively, intellectual quarterly sponsored by Saint Xavier College in Chicago. The 244-page issue is devoted to analyses of Lonergan's work, including articles by English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, historian of philosophy, and by two of the nation's most theologically astute Catholic laymen: Continuum's Editor Justus George Lawler and Michael Novak of Harvard. Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure...