Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale's first victory came in the sixth bout, and the Yale bench emitted a feeble cheer. But the enthusiasm died quickly as the slaughter continued...
...genuine crisis of commitment for Peace Corps volunteers.... If there is an answer, it is to make the volunteer's job easier, not harder--to give him a task where he will have a stake in commitment. A job that is a treadmill of frustration cannot stimulate enthusiasm...
...people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman, kiss her hand and address her as "Madame" rather than call her comrade and raise a clenched fist in a party salute. Reflecting Communism's cramped living quarters and flimsy walls, the Red Emily Post also advises...
Officials of the Kennedy Institute have shown a disappointing tendency in recent weeks to have lost some of their original excitement for their own undergraduate programs. The enthusiasm, and apparently the plans, for an undergraduate debating union styled after Oxford's seemingly are gone. There have been complaints that some of the undergraduate seminars are sparsely attended and unexciting; in any case, the Institute's major concern now is working its Fellows into the faculty study group program. And there is a feeling that more of the time and energy of the Institute's small staff should go into coordinating...
Another reason for the slowness is that the organizers slacked off during Christmas vacation and exam period after a concerted drive in the fall. "If you stir up a lot of enthusiasm and then desert for a few weeks, you kill morale," Raudenbush said. "You've got to keep at it." Apparently impressed by the Jewish Memorial success, the teamsters recently asked SDS Labor Committee to help them organize insurance workers. The Committee declined in order to devote themselves entirely to hospital organizing...