Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born into a dull, grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths...
...under the logotype, all was familiar, and the Trib's Jock Whitney was in Paris with his new cochairman, the Post's Kay Graham, to celebrate the combined operation. Their enthusiasm promised the international edition of the New York Times a fight to the death...
...year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...
...enthusiasm, Ford's view of the future remains strangely negative. He talks of "constructive alternatives" to Johnson bills, and Republican proposals to solve urban problems. But he insists that spending on domestic problems must be cut substantially, even if the Administration requests a raise in taxes. Excess appropriations, he argues, have led to high prices and high interest rates, the principal reason for the Republican victory last month. And so, "they certainly have to make some bona fide effort to reduce non-military, non-essential spending before they could under any circumstances ask for an increase in federal taxes...
...Laureate. Remarkably, many of Yevtushenko's home-turned verses, so uncomplicated and naive, hypnotize his American intellectual audiences. Perhaps the enthusiasm for him reflects an unconscious dissatisfaction with the disappearance from modern Western poetry of simple values and popular appeal. It is not that Yevtushenko is a Communist poet, but that he is a sentimental Communist poet. Any American producing paeans to the Great Society, better dam construction or Old Glory would be sneered out of the intellectual establishment...