Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, who teaches at Brown University, and I, who teach at the Rhode Island School of Design, are filled with enthusiasm and optimism for your young men and women of the year...
...Lincoln Center campus already includes Fordham's School of Law, which handled mainly night students in rented downtown quarters for 60 years, and will add the School of Education, still housed in what Executive Vice President Rev. Timothy Healy calls "a dump-but a dump on fire with enthusiasm." The enthusiasm is generated by Dean Harry Rivlin, lured away from the City University of New York, who is shunning undergraduate "teaching methods" courses for future teachers in the city's slum schools, is sending them into those schools as freshmen to learn under fire instead...
Antipoverty officials will decide within the next two weeks whether to grant Haravrd Upward Bound a compromise request. Administrators at the School of Education insist that the program will continue, with undiminished energy and enthusiasm, even if OEO rejects the proposal. But it will remain, for another year at least, merely a stab in the dark...
Among those who cheered Kennedy's decision to build the world's biggest and best supersonic transport was Vice President Lyndon Johnson. But as President, Johnson's enthusiasm has noticeably waned. He properly played a passive part in the bitter 30-month competition between Boeing and Lockheed to build the airframe and between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to make the engines. But in finally declaring Boeing and G.E. to be the winners, the President also withheld for an indefinite period the money they will need to move full speed ahead in building prototypes of the newly...
Sharing Rhodes's enthusiasm is the four-year-old Ohio Development Department, which serves as a clearinghouse for the state's available plant sites, providing what Director F. P. Neuenschwander calls "one-stop service." Making industry-hunting "blitz trips" to other states with hardsell efficiency, the department shuns the routine of banquets and press conferences on the theory that businessmen are best approached in their own offices. In fact, "Rhodes's raiders" like to show up without appointments. Explains Deputy Director Patterson: "It doesn't give them an opportunity to tell you not to come...