Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself is very much aware of the historic role he has suddenly assumed, and he approaches it with a mixture of enthusiasm and chagrin. The responsibilities, he says, are "awesome; there is no other word." Says an intimate: "Archie is really in the game, but he's agonizing too." He is determined to pursue Watergate and its related scandals to the end, even if it takes years. Cox expects to be in Washington a long time-long after Richard Nixon, for example. Once he considered resigning if the White House did not supply the documents he wanted...
WHEN THE CONCERT STARTED, the sun bore down on the field and the Grateful Dead played a four hour set. Normal Dead enthusiasm was diffused by the sun which scorched into brains which had much of their juices drained by various portions of beer, wine, liquor, LSD, THC, MDA, quaaludes, sopors -- and some horse tranquilizer was reported as well. THC and acid were being sold for $2 a hit in plastic prescription bottles. Someone said there wasn't much Drano around like there was at Woodstock...
Sadat showed no enthusiasm for immediate merger with his fanatical neighbor. He sent a message to Gaddafi urging that he call the marchers off. Gaddafi's response could hardly have been more startling-or confusing...
Hefner shrewdly assessed a massive change in public attitude about sex a generation ago (Playboy will turn 20 in January); Guccione proved that the enthusiasm for magazines celebrating that change is wider than had been previously believed. But there are signs -early ones, to be sure-that public attitudes may be moving in a different direction. In short, the skin kings seem secure for some time to come, but it just may be that they have reached the limits of the New Frontier...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...