Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even ready for his first major swing through the South. He managed to draw some friendly crowds while evoking no visible hostility. Yet his stop in a black neighborhood in Atlanta, like an earlier visit to Pittsburgh's Negro Hill district, displayed again his failure to stir black enthusiasm. Asked why black Democrats should support him instead of Humphrey, McCarthy replied: "I haven't really made much of an argument that they should, except that if we pursue the war, there's not enough money to take care of poverty programs in this country." A Negro offered an explanation...
Mayor Armand Isnard and his villagers were only too happy to oblige, and before long Madame, whose first husband made a fortune on a chain of newsreel cinemas, was lavishing her three boundless resources-romantic enthusiasm, energy and hard cash-on medieval restoration. She trained masons to lay a new roof on the chapel and made them do it over four times to suit her. The castle towers, which Mayor Isnard once threatened to tear down before they tumbled, now jut sturdily into the air. Two massive feudal gates again open and close off the town, and once-buried streets...
...Reddin prides himself on his ability to work coolly under stress, as he did in August 1965, when he was called in at the last minute to devise the strategy that eventually quieted a ravaged city. Seventeen months after taking charge, he cannot hide his enthusiasm at being chief. "I love the challenge," he says. "It scares hell out of me, but I love it." He adds: "This is the year...
...Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates had its practical side. Standing foursquare in favor of good government, they gave the Japanese voter a breath of his current enthusiasm in politics-"fresh air"-without making him go through a disruptive housecleaning...
...enthusiasm of La Leche mothers is now receiving increased scientific support. A husband-wife team of physician and psychologist, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Niles Newton of Chicago, point out in the New England Journal of Medicine that the survival of the species originally depended upon "the satisfactions gained from the two voluntary acts of reproduction-coitus and breast feeding. These had to be sufficiently pleasurable to ensure their frequent occurrence." There never has been any argument about the pleasure of coitus, but the satisfactions of lactation were submerged in the prudery and false modesty of the Edwardian...