Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counting period, a full battalion of Scots Guards was flown in from Kenya. Spotter aircraft flew low over the clove plantations. Below, rural polling stations pegged white sheets to the ground as an all-well signal, kept red ones on hand in case of trouble. So great was popular enthusiasm for the election that on the nearby island of Pemba, known throughout Africa as the "Witchdoctors' University," leading practitioners were paid by both sides to cast their bones and influence the results...
...conducted the Spoleto Messiah, stopped by to play piano duets with a series regular, John Browning. Last week Browning backed up U.S. Conductor Robert La Marchina (Traviata), who was up early for the sake of a tuneful Rachmaninoff piano-cello sonata. What's more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber music. "One of the most original and happily realized formulas of the festival," glowed Rome's II Giornale d'ltalia. The Italian radio network helpfully broadcast most of the chamber music from Spoleto...
...intensive rehearsal schedule the chorus maintained is strong evidence of its courage and enthusiasm. The performance at Tanglewood last Sunday, while demonstrating that courage and desire were not sufficient to overcome completely the problems of a student chorus working without enough rehearsal time, spoke almost as well for the musical ability of the group. Although depending upon the male voices too often, the chorus achieved good co-ordination with the soloists and the orchestra throughout most of the performance. It also had the strength to carry its harmonies against the powerful Boston Symphony...
Another reason why President Kennedy's welfare-state legislative proposals sometimes generate scant enthusiasm in Congress is that he himself often seems to have little genuine enthusiasm for them. He often conveys an impression that he is operating as a political technician, asking not what the measures can do for the country but what proposing them can do for him politically. Lacking, or seeming to lack, any real commitment to his welfare proposals, the President sometimes fails to give them sustained support. "He sends up one message after another," says a congressional Republican, "and then forgets about them...
...seems certain that Juan Marichal (13-3), Jim O'Toole (13-6) and Sandy Koufax (13-3) will hurl some scoreless innings. The American League lacks such impressive and tested starters but Boston's Dick Radatz (8-1) might very well be able to kill any National League enthusiasm long enough for the American bats to establish a permanent superiority...