Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were chosen I would look forward with a great deal of enthusiasm to joining a group of deans at the Kennedy School," Tarver said yesterday...
Looking back on the sports year that has just concluded, it is hard to retain much enthusiasm over the successes that dotted the 1978-79 season. Overall, this was a gloomy year for the Crimson charges, a year that saw Harvard invincibles proven mortal and Cambridge hopes cast aside...
Ironically, McNamara's point was lost on 1,000 protesters, mainly students, who burned him in effigy because they could not forgive his role in shaping Viet Nam War strategy. Their enthusiasm was misplaced; the rioters themselves could hardly have denounced "the mad momentum" of the arms race with more passionate eloquence than McNamara. Said...
Meantime, the public sector in the past three decades has consumed more and more of the nation's gross national product (32.5% in 1978). An exorbitantly overgrown system of regulation has turned prudent Government watchfulness over private industry into virtually perpetual interference, and thereby chilled enthusiasm for investment. Moreover, the business of business, unglamorous and vaguely unpopular in the U.S. for at least several generations, is portrayed as all-purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance...
...ideal, of course, is a news staff totally motivated by their editor's enthusiasm and energy--the Spark-Plug syndrome rather than the Times' Carrot-and-Stick or the Post's Survival-of-the-Fittest. Don Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian...