Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheherazade (Columbia) is a passionate performance of Maurice Ravel's coldly exciting music, with Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel sharing the enthusiasm built behind her by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Berlioz' Cléopátre, on the other side, is less remarkable music...
...still pushing its long-term plan for a surface Polaris fleet manned by mixed crews. However, Britain has little enthusiasm for the idea, while West Germany and Italy, which were both enthusiastic at first, have now indicated that they would rather sink their money in multimanned Polaris submarines. What the U.S. did win last week was substantial agreement from its allies-excluding France-on the general outline of a more limited scheme, the inter-allied, NATO-controlled strike force that Washington hopes to create in the near future...
Meanwhile McDowell waits... and waits. Men sit all day on porches doing nothing, hardly even talking. Lethargy pervades the town and seems to affect everyone in it. Howell tries to keep up enthusiasm with his claim that "if I can get someone to scotch for me we're gonna win," but to many this talk is losing its inspirational effect. The strikers are already deeply in debt for last fall's pickets, and this debt weighs heavily on them...
...unsuccessful state's attorney, Adamowski had a sure-loser aura about him. even established his campaign headquarters in the Casualty Building. He carried on a drab campaign, failed to win the support of any of Chicago's newspapers (all of them Republican, more or less), stirred no enthusiasm in many G.O.P. ward leaders. Then why didn't Daley wallop Adamowski good? Apparently, a lot of Chicagoans were restive about Daley's tax increases, the latest of which was a 3% boost in real estate taxes. Adamowski's fellow Republicans could well ponder what might have...
...been the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, which he built in 1945. His eldest son's tragic death by drowning in 1952 has impelled him to do even more for children. He founded a children's nursery in Maracaibo in his son's memory. His current enthusiasm is low-cost private housing. Helped by a $5.000,000 loan from the U.S., Mendoza has built 500 houses, has 2,000 more under construction, and plans to start 3,000 more this year...