Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mortify the fifty or so who eventually joined the group, but the results on that occasion were doubly humiliating. The freshmen soon lost their way, and wandered vainly down dark side-streets, wondering how any girl could ever be worth so long a trip. Their ranks thinned, and their enthusiasm diminished at every turn--until finally in desperation they arrived at a large brick building that had all the trappings of a women's dormitory: gardens, flower-potted windows, matching curtains...
Though aware of these difficulties, most reformers, especially on the campuses, are showing new enthusiasm and new optimism. They feel that ghetto activism and public awareness have at least opened the ears of bureaucrats to new ideas. The atmosphere, they are convinced, is finally ripe for revolution. As for the problems--"If I had all the answers," says Hill, looking up from a map of school districting in St. Paul, Minn., "I'd be bored...
...Enthusiasm. An Oxford graduate and the son of a millionaire Ibo financier, Lieut. Colonel Ojukwu is more than a match for Gowon, who grew up in the more provincial Middle Belt region and learned most of his lessons in the army. For months, Ojukwu has been gradually removing the last traces of federal influence in the East. Gowon made concessions, but he insisted on the principle of a strong central government. Then last week Gowon forced Ojukwu over the brink by announcing a plan to divide Nigeria's regions into twelve states, three of them to be carved...
...million worth of crude oil last year and also exports coal and palm-oil products. Gowon faces no mean task in forcing the rebel regime back into the union, especially since leaders in both his Mid-Western and Western regions, including the influential Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have shown no enthusiasm for military action against the East-or for a strong central government...
Space Reporters. For the U.S.'s John Willenbecher, 31, the extra half-dimension grows out of his enthusiasm for the space age. As a boy, he spent hours gazing through his telescope at the heavens; today his Manhattan studio is plastered with NASA moon photos and maps of outer space. His constructions are essentially intended as windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol...