Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were about 100 Negro candidates in last May's Democratic primary, and the Courier was viewing its future--which held out the prospect of warm friends in high places--with unabashed enthusiasm. A couple of days before the vote, editors set into type a jubilant editorial on the power of the Negro vote. It never ran; the ed, framed in black, hangs in the Courier office. All but a handful of Negroes and white liberals were clobbered at the polls...
...Brooks tackled the problem of relations with Ecuadorians by displaying an enthusiasm and a patience that can only astound--or dismay--other Vounteers. On their first day in town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
...series of acquisitions starting in 1964, CBS's big eye has fallen most notably on such things as banjos and baseball. Though he has long proclaimed his company's "enthusiasm for those things which can improve the process of education," CBS Chairman William S. Paley has been tardy in joining the emerging knowledge industry. Last week Paley announced that CBS was enrolling at last by buying out-in a deal involving an estimated $275 million in CBS stock-Manhattan's venerable publishing house of Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...listened--to student activists, students in academic difficulty, students who had a new project in civil rights or drama or social work. He has borne long hours of argument with tireless patience, and greeted new proposals with enthusiasm. In his six years as Dean of the College he has been more accessible than most professors. Students button-holed him in his office without appointments, and they debated with him at Harvard Policy Committee meetings for two hours every week. Editors of this newspaper called him often, sometimes at odd hours of the night. He was available for advice and conversation...
...have tried many times to initiate a dialogue, but unsuccessfully. The last YR executive committee wanted no contact whatsoever, and the present committee has shown no enthusiasm for such discussions...