Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they are all here, sometimes twice and sometimes in flocks: "The immediate result of this dramatic departure was one of widespread enthusiasm and some of the murmurings against Oliveres were stilled when his tardily acknowledged son organized a corps of young nobles which made a brilliant showing and set an example for other gilded youth...
...that these funds will not be withdrawn from its vaults, it cannot afford to take open stands on social issues. In Haryou's language, what appeals to the black masses alienates the white power structure. Hudgins' church sermons on thrift, followed by solicitations, cannot spark the same kind of enthusiasm which could be generated by playing up the fact that Freedom National has no investments in South Africa, unlike most of the larger New York banks. Fear of their white depositor's antagonistic reaction to publicity of this fact has kept the bank's directors silent...
Though they are not yet available for prescription, and are not likely to be for a long time, "Abbott's memory pills" are the subject of growing enthusiasm among brain researchers. Until last week, the only evidence of the pills' ef fectiveness had been supplied by experi ments with rats; now there is encour aging preliminary evidence, reports Psy chiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, that the pills may help to mend the fraying mem ory of aging humans...
...bust executed around 1855 of Dau mier himself, complete down to the wrinkles and warts. Bidding for the 14 drawings was lively enough to bring prices up to $17,346 for a single one. Buyers were mostly private European collectors, who seem to have recaptured some of the enthusiasm of Balzac. To tal take: a staggering...
...month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything in it has significance...