Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...towards peace. But the new President would have to show us why we would be killing ourselves and would have to prove we want to continue doing so. Even a Richard Nixon, who managed to win only in the House, would feel himself unable to spark the needed enthusiasm...
That was one event among many which have taken their toll on Gilligan's spirit. Not even to strange reporters did he betray any bounce or enthusiasm. He knew he and his allies are in for a long twilight struggle, win or lose. For 1968's new politics, the McCarthy movement, or whatever, is not destined to purify the Democratic party--or the nation. In coming months, this year's issues would be blurred, old enemies would cross the lines, and freaky opportunists would make their way to the top--as always...
...which seems to suggest what underlay the general sluggishness Friday night: the political sands have shifted, the summer's enthusiasm has yielded to the fall's agony, and a few months' time has almost made irrelevant the central issue--the Vietnam war--which provoked the new politics in the first place...
Anderson, who graduated from Harvard Business School this year, started the contest, hoping that this prolific enthusiasm will spread throughout Cambridge...
Spreading Enthusiasm...