Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle decided to press for resumption of talks on Western European unity before the matter of British admission to the Common Market can be settled, but they expressed the hope that Britain would be admitted. Still troubled by all too recent memories of the Boche, Parisians showed only muted enthusiasm for the visitor, but at a state dinner at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle offered an emotional toast and a special history lesson: "However badly founded were the immediate motives of our wars, however inopportune their execution, however ruinous their results, it was a great cause which...
...inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done on order. Gnarled old peasant women thrust bunches of white flowers at the cavalcade as it passed; urchins broke from the throng, squealing "Meester Kennedy. Meester Kennedy." One youngster even carried a reassuring sign: "We play touch football." Above the shouts came the wild...
With increasing enthusiasm, U.S. businesses have become the Medicis of modern art, but never have U.S. artists received such an imaginative boost from business as they did last week. S. C. Johnson and Son (wax products) announced that it had spent about $750,000 to buy one recent painting each by a representative selection of the nation's top artists. It was the largest single industrial investment in art to date, bigger even than the collection at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. More important than the size of the investment was the quality it had bought. When...
...contract to supply ship-towing locomotives to the Panama Canal Co., worked hard to counter efforts to restrict imports of cheap transistors to U.S. markets. But after a 1960 Japanese trade fair in Moscow fizzled and wound up $314,000 in the red, the Diet lost some of its enthusiasm for JETRO, decided to cut costs by taking Dewey off the payroll...
While considering the project, Carnegie officials naturally turned to Henry Fenn for advice on testing and curriculum. Fenn responded with the enthusiasm of a man who has fought for years to introduce "remote languages" (e.g., Chinese, Arabic, Swahili) into high schools. The China-born son of American missionaries, Fenn has spent 40 years teaching in the U.S. and China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding...