Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphal enthusiasm of Boston's new artists' groups rebounds in the gallery. Groups like the Boston Studio Coalition, Art and Technology Inc., and the Institute of Contemporary Art know that they are firm in their grasp. Finally, one is comfortable with the heirs of Abstract Expressionism, all of them. We are at last joyfully in our own century...
...works for at least three new clubs, plus resorts in New Jersey, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Spain. Hefner's empire earned him and his very few fellow stockholders $6,868,165 last year, after taxes. But for all his alchemistic talent, Hefner's enthusiasm for business seems to be waning. "When a man is in his 40s," he says, "he realizes that there are only so many years in which to do certain things. I have decided that putting my philosophy in book form can wait until I'm 60." Thank God for that...
...more stirring exhibition of sheer manliness and skill on the part of young people than that put on by our football team in the closing minutes of its final game of this past fall? Here was at least event in which all Harvard men could unite in enthusiasm and lifting of spirit...
...Allen Welsh Dulles, who died at 75 of pneumonia in a Washington hospital last week, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence was vital to American survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise that helped make the Central Intelligence Agency - for all its adverse publicity and serious misjudgments -the world's most efficient espionage organization. British Major-General Sir Kenneth Strong, former head of intelligence for the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, says of Dulles: "No more acute intellect has served...
FINCH has concocted a number of plausible arguments for the grace period, the most convincing being his "urgent desire" to keep the Southern schools open while they work out desegregation plans. But Finch's obvious lack of enthusiasm for the 60-day scheme makes it clear that the idea was not his. Pressure was apparently applied, and the source of that pressure offers a clue to Nixon's role in the conflict...