Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's enthusiasm for this kind of metronomic statecraft found startling expression last week during Nixon's first press conference in three months. Said he: "There are those who want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned...
...celebration, he opened a special children's boutique this month, directly across Paris' elegant Faubourg St. Honore from his grownup salon. There, potential clients can rattle around in toy racing cars or tumble with giant Teddy bears, while mothers hit the racks with new enthusiasm. Now a jersey dress is a mere $36, a tweed suit about $40. Best news of all: children who do not live in Paris, and hardly ever make it over for the collections, can get the same bargains at any of Cardin's 200 outlets around the world...
...short-lived among people like us. They knew about Louise Day Hicks, so we talked about that for 15 seconds. Then they wanted to know if our jocks were politicos. I really wanted to pay attention to the show rather than talk, but they couldn't understand such enthusiasm about a band. So I told him some of the jocks were interested in politics, which I think is true. As does everyone else, they asked if there had been any action here. "A little." And then they said they figured that out in Worcester they were about a year behind...
Coming at a time when even student government types are shrugging their shoulders at "just another committee." Pusey's exclusive appointment procedure worked out with Dean Ford has generated little enthusiasm and made several enemies...
Dean Ford said before yesterday's meeting that the views of subcommittee members about the Project would "range from enthusiasm to strong skepticism," Cohen said last night that he has "a fully open mind about the whole thing" and that there is only "about a 0001% chance" that he himself would be directly involved with the Project...