Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...packs marched listlessly to a drum and bugle corps; a few busloads of young girls chanted: "If the government continues like this, we will cut off its nose." Not even chunky Communist Councilwoman Mireya Baltra, berating the "imperialists" between swigs from a bottle of Pepsi, could generate much enthusiasm. "This government stained its hands with blood," exulted another speaker. "We have our martyrs." Then everybody went home...
Because the truth nettles far more men than it ever sets free, Too Far to Walk is not likely to be received with much enthusiasm on college campuses. Certainly Mersey's pitiless commentary on cant on the campus will miff many people, and both students and faculties will yelp over his satiric swipes at militant protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors...
Lyndon Johnson loves to escape the White House for his native Texas-where the prairies are wide, the sun warm and the livestock friendly. The White House press corps does not share the President's enthusiasm. Reporters look with loathing on extended Texas trips that take them away from Washington politics and parties and deposit them in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, some 60 miles from the L.B.J. ranch...
...fully aware," concluded Jaffe and Brill, "that our enthusiasm may be playing an even larger role than cyclazocine." Whether that enthusiasm is a necessary ingredient, and whether it can be transmitted to patients "more typical of the antisocial urban heroin user," is something that can only be learned with further testing...
...another. The Vice-President, while discharging his duties, has taken care to make himself attractive to the public. During his Asian tour, he seemed to be following carefully the instructions of a confidential memorandum on "improving his image" that was reprinted in Newsweek several weeks ago. Humphrey's enthusiasm for the current South Vietnamese government and his natural ebullience seemed a little out of place in a country that has been at war for twenty years, especially in comparison to the sombre mood of his more experienced companion, Averell Harriman. But the pictures of the Vice-President exchanging cheery small...