Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed difficult to discover why people go to mixers. Nonetheless, they do, and with embarrassing amounts of enthusiasm. So great, in fact, is the desire for mixers that no summer school worth its tuition would be complete without...
...socially prominent St. Lucian woman, 'straight from school to people who manage very nicely earning nothing-to teach them about refrigeration and The Star-Spangled Banner.' But today, America's Peace Corpsmen in St. Lucia have assimilated themselves into the St. Lucian society with an enthusiasm that would have made the first missionaries quake in horror. They are on first-name terms with thousands...
...R.S.P.C.A., Actress Rutherford actually dares to ride a horse-to avoid confusion in this episode, it is helpful to remember that the heroine wears the hat. And later on she ventures to do the twist-she does it perhaps not wisely but quite well and with a massive enthusiasm that may remind some spectators of an earnest rhinoceros rubbing its backside on a tree trunk...
Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who promised spectacular accomplishments during his first 60 days in office, has since regretted his electioneering enthusiasm. As the 60th day rolled around, the only tangible legislative accomplishment he could point to was his first budget. And that last week proved so ill-considered that it trapped Pearson and his longtime friend and economic adviser, Finance Minister Walter Gordon, 57, in a violent and humiliating political uproar...
...given more to worship than appreciation, they seldom develop an ear-only an attitude. Often, as in his current series of seminars at Manhattan's Five Spot, Monk, for one, will spend a whole night horsing around on his piano while his sidemen accompany him with all the enthusiasm of cops frisking drunks. On other nights he plays brilliantly and the sidemen follow with insight and devotion-but the applause is just the same, Monk's audience is far too devoted to him to worry about his music...