Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gist of these proposals is the Committee's recognition that the only thing which insures an excellent Gen Ed program is excellent Gen Ed courses and the only thing which insures excellent courses is excellent teachers. When all is said, there is really no doubt that in the enthusiasm of men like George Wald and Sam Beer is all that is good with Gen Ed today...
...Clasp, a Pat. Unlike the preceding week, Latin America's leaders seemed less reserved about De Gaulle and his suggestions for a Latin bond. The crowds everywhere remained heartening, pressing in to cheer el general francés with such enthusiasm that De Gaulle time and again sidestepped his security men to clasp a hand or pat a head. And that, after all, was why he had come -to be seen and remembered, to reinvigorate the French presence...
...substantial number of people to shake hands. He reaches one hand over the other in order to shake the largest number possible. By the end of his New England trip, both the President's hands were bleeding--and they had been treated several times during the day. The unbounded enthusiasm of the crowd means that they will even claw the President's hand, if only they can get close enough...
...quandaries, and they're hep enough to hate the big cement housing projects that 'tolerant' progressives build so proudly." Compassionate and sincere, Humphrey may be; hep, he is not. Where Mailer calls for an artist-politician, sensitive to the people's "existential" needs, Humphrey's words suggest the enthusiasm of a Rotarian recently converted to the mystique of social engineering: "We must utilize our educational system to feed more brainpower into the machinery of American foreign policy...
Much of the early editorial vehemence is now gone, perhaps out of a self-conscious attempt to achieve balance. But the editorial cartoonists show no enthusiasm for calm assessment. Goldwater has always been an enticing target and the cartoonists continue to slash away. The candidates themselves may have found few issues to debate, but to the artists of the editorial page the campaign has been a long excuse for caustic, black-and-white comment -a gallery of caricature in which the Republicans almost always come out second best (see cuts...