Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming argumentation. In fact, this is the first article I've ever read in a Harvard Review that is just plain fun reading, even if you aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent...
Egypt's Nasser, no notable supporter of the U.S. in Viet Nam, offered his good offices in the search for a settlement, and immediately ordered Egyptian diplomats to contact Hanoi. His enthusiasm stems in part, no doubt, from a desire to enhance his own image as an international statesman. But the government press went a bit beyond mere self-serving. "Scorn and skepticism in the Communist camp notwithstanding," noted the Egyptian Gazette, "no head of state would send special envoys to a dozen world capitals, as President Johnson has done, if he had no intention of suiting his actions...
...police lines and danced across the court in a conga line. Their hero was more subdued. "Today there was no pressure on me," he admitted. "I play better tennis that way." Loser Emerson announced that he intends to hang up his racket. "At 29, I've lost my enthusiasm," he said. "It's time for me to step aside for . younger players." Good thing he didn't say that when he was only...
...ARKANSAS. Republicans are bullish about their prospects for unseating incumbent Democratic Governor Orval Faubus next year. Their hope: Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, who came within 82,928 votes of beating Faubus in 1964-and has not stopped running since. Thanks to Rockefeller largesse, the G.O.P. in Arkansas throbs with enthusiasm. It has a formal organization in every one of the state's 75 counties, boasts 40 women's clubs with a total membership of 1,076, and even publishes a sporadic tabloid, the Arkansas Outlook. Bragged one G.O.P. organizer: "We don't talk Republicanism-we preach...
...seem a bit embarrassed by space jargon, Life' men talk enthusiastically of "birds," "aborts," and so on. Last spring they had given a party of businessmen a tour of the Cape, Houston's Manned Space Center and some of the country's other space facilities. Impressed by their guests' enthusiasm, they had now invited 25 college editors to watch James Borman and Frank Lovell blast off in the Gemini...