Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitzer's biggest asset is that its own inventive enthusiasm is teamed in comforting alliance with the Claremont Colleges, which will help pay Pitzer's bills until the school is self-sufficient. In the words of Classics Scholar Stephen Glass, a Pomona graduate: "There is newness here without risk...
...complete-scale model with animated parts. The exhibit drew 385,000 people when put on display at a downtown department store. Bacon personally visited 13 public schools and encouraged schoolchildren to work up models of how they would like their local district to look. Result was a climate of enthusiasm for improvement and change that ranged through the whole community, from self-interested businessman to self-interested slum dweller...
Skeptical of the power of the pulpit. M.R.A. chiefly dramatizes its doctrines by stage and screen. Last week the latest of its simplistic message plays, Through the Garden Wall, in which feuding neighbors learn love through M.R.A., was touring Germany, drawing enthusiasm from crowds and shudders from drama critics. Thousands still flock each summer to M.R.A.'s grand rallies at its lavish headquarters at Caux, Switzerland, and Mackinac Island, Michigan; in 1962 M.R.A. opened a third and equally handsome center at Odawara, Japan. Although M.R.A. officials are vague about money and membership figures, Britain's Peter Howard, Buchman...
...patterns have taken shape. The illusion of neutrality, for instance, was only that, since nearly all of the fence-sitting papers have made plain which way they lean. And the unprecedented volume of Johnson endorsements could not conceal the fact that the chorus of approval fell noticeably short of enthusiasm...
...fighting in World War I, he became an ardent advocate of Fascism. In and out of favor with the regime, he joined the Allies in 1943, later tried to join the Communist Party but was brusquely turned down. He visited Red China in 1956 and came home bubbling with enthusiasm...