Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final public address, given at her 86th birthday party. Anthony rose to her feet and proclaimed: "The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop. Young blood, fresh with enthusiasm and with all the enlightenment of the new century, must now carry on the contest. There have been others just as true and devoted to the cause. . . . with such women consecrating their lives--failure is impossible...
...decades. Department of Corrections statistics show that work by therapists and non-disciplinary work by guards reduces recidivism rates; the Martinson report offers contradictory evidence. Gaughan points out that younger guards show more of a desire to help the inmates and calls them a new breed, but their enthusiasm may wane after years of work as corrections officers. Inmates do not always get along well with the few social workers and therapists, but on the whole they relate better to them than to the guards, who they know always have security foremost on their minds...
There are alternatives. One that is appealing- because it attacks the main source of energy waste- is a big increase in the federal tax on gas at the pump, on the order of 20? per gal. or more. President Ford opposes a tax increase, and Congress has little enthusiasm for it. Another alternative is receiving increasingly serious attention in Washington: phased-in reductions in oil imports coupled with mandatory conservation measures and an allocation system that would spread the impact of reduced supplies. This in effect is a form of rationing without coupons...
These irreverent moments lie close to the heart of the series' remarkable appeal, for they are the flip side of Clark's enthusiasm for his subject. His business, he implies, is not uplifting masses, but holding a civilized conversation among equals. It is an endearing conceit, one that makes you want to break out the port and cigars when he raps on the electronic door...
...students looked at each other and smiled, and suddenly they didn't seem as hurried. Blood was just as mundane as the other samples Horowitz had analyzed that morning--Gainesburger, vitamins, chicken bullion and maple syrup. But they had remembered how much they liked Horowitz and his bursts of enthusiasm that sometimes went beyond "real physics," and they were pleased that his microscope was working so well...