Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...other hand, would probably carry the state, as well as Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while turning the Massachusetts and Rhode Island races into photo finishes and losing Delaware to the Democrats. While Massachusetts has a Republican Governor and one G.O.P. Senator, its predominantly Democratic voters have little enthusiasm for Nixon. In Connecticut, city votes are expected to outweigh Nixon's strength in affluent downstate counties. Pennsylvania gave 51.2% of its votes to John F. Kennedy eight years ago. But the Philadelphia Democratic machine, which produced a 331,554-vote bulge for J.F.K., has rusted badly since Bill Green...
...flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes in the retina to ease the pressure of glaucoma. They also penetrate translucent skin to vaporize skin cancers, or tattoos that out-live the patient's enthusiasm for such decoration. Lasers are being used in data pro- cessing to heat tiny, closely spaced spots on magnetic film, thus altering the magnetization and increasing the bits of information that can be packed into a given area. Laser beams themselves can be modulated to carry considerably more intelligence than...
...Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed the theater for its "notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with a mask and enthusiasm can bounce into it." Yet in his tart, tough way, he was fond of the theater. As he once put it: "Pressagentry can be a gay life for one with detachment, and with an understanding of why the theater's children behave the way they...
...fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from the free wheeling devices of jazz and rock, both of which he plays with enthusiasm...