Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costly Meddling. Upon taking over as state chairman, Bliss got a massive registration drive under way, traveled about the state instilling into local Republican groups his gospel of organized enthusiasm. Result: in 1950, despite an intense and well-financed drive by organized labor to defeat the architect of the Taft-Hartley Act, Senator Robert A. Taft won reelection by a smashing margin, and the G.O.P. gained four additional House seats...
Rallies have lacked conviction in recent years, and it is thought that switching the scene to Widener, hallowed scene of many great student gatherings in the past, will spark enthusiasm...
...wild when, two years later, rodents were the only rioters around Harvard. A few Yalies let several rats loose on the field during the game; at least one of the pets permanently eluded angry officials. On the evening of the game no Harvard men seemed to show any enthusiasm as three other visitors from New Haven were assaulted by two actors from a play showing in Boston...
According to Byron R. Stookey, Associate Director of Advanced Standing and one of the first advisers to the group, the American Indian Project began in 1961 with enthusiasm on the part of Dorothy E. Lee's freshman anthropology seminar. She and Mrs. Robert Rosenthal, a member of the executive board of the Association of American Indian Affairs, first set up employment opportunities on the reservations...
...that a large basketful of babies should have been dumped in the Seine that perhaps it can be no more horrifying that this was done in the name of God. Yet religious massacres always trouble history's onlookers; the intensity of their revulsion is matched only by the enthusiasm of the participants...