Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Enthusiasm...
...could hardly be blamed for displaying a bit of self-satisfied pride in the strength of their currency. But as soon as the leaders of Bonn's Grand Coalition sensed how poorly the German gloating was being received elsewhere in Europe, they moved without hesitation to curb the enthusiasm of their countrymen. In a radio interview, Willy Brandt gave the Germans a lesson in prudent international etiquette. Said the Foreign Minister: "Arrogance toward our neighbors and partners would be stupid and dangerous." Chancellor Kiesinger warned his people about developing pretensions of grandeur. "In the journalistic utterances abroad during...
...Caracas resembles a collage of advertising posters. At night its plazas glitter and bustle with popular rallies. Next Sunday is election day, and Venezuelans are enjoying the campaign with the enthusiasm of a people liberated from dictatorial rule only ten years ago. No fewer than 28 parties are competing for congressional seats, and have festooned the capital with tigers, roosters, flying saucers and other party symbols. In one square, the chief opposition presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, head of the Social Christian Party, has a huge calendar ticking off the days until el cambio, "the change." In riposte, the governing Acci...
...game--1968--has generated more than the usual H-Y enthusiasm. Harvard Stadium sold out its 40,000 seats without public sale and officials estimated that they could have filled 60,000 more without difficulty. 3000 closed-circuit TV tickets for three campus outlets were snatched up quickly, and the demand has been so great that other closed-circuit outlets have been set up in New York, New Haven, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In addition, radio bradcasts will go to Harvard and Yale clubs in most sections of the United States...
Alice stayed away from the interviews. "I was dying to see the applicants, but that autonomous band structure was hard enough to understand. A band mother would have killed the enthusiasm." Alice thinks it took the new conductor, James Walker, several months to get used to her, but he liked the band and its mom enough that he has remained at Harvard for eight years...