Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked in all departments; when he became editor in 1963, he phased out oldtimers whose pace had faltered and went on a youth kick. He increased the edit staff to 50, most of them reporters in their 20s. More important, he infected them with his own enthusiasm for their paper and their city...
With remarkable consistency, the U.S. press corps has risen in indignation against the candidacy of Bobby Kennedy. Even those who have come to his defense have demonstrated a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm. Of those newspapers and columnists who have commented, the great majority object both to the manner in which he entered the presidential race and his subsequent campaigning. Their tone ranges from outrage to contempt to a kind of weary resignation, as if to say, "Well, that's politics...
...first week as a presidential candidate, Kennedy shrewdly chose four university campuses as his major stops. The greetings he received ranged from unbridled ecstasy at the University of Kansas and Kansas State, to enthusiasm at Vanderbilt in Nashville, to friendly acceptance in the potentially hostile territory of the University of Al abama at Tuscaloosa. It was a double demonstration: Eugene McCarthy has no monopoly on collegiate affection; Kennedy can still...
...intelligence and enthusiasm, the McCarthy organization suffers severely from a lack of professionalism. Clark is not a good campaign administrator, and Goodwin, the only man at the top who has been through a presidential campaign before, has given the campaign whatever order it has. Money, strangely enough, is not a very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift...
...looked up Pablo Picasso in Paris. Picasso offered to let him pick out a picture, so Mayer did. It turned out to be by one of Picasso's students (the master let him choose a second). Today, Mayer lets dealers do most of the picking. But his infectious enthusiasm has made modern-art converts out of several of his neighbors. Even the Mayers' butler now assembles collages from bow ties and false teeth, which Mayer hangs along with his Oldenburgs and Tingue-lys. "We buy what we like," he explains, "not for appreciation, but enjoyment. I hope...