Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps the most marked sentiment among voters is a waning of enthusiasm for the presidential campaign itself. Traditionally, citizens become more interested in a campaign as Election Day nears. This year the reverse seems true. At the start of the campaign in July, 46% of the voters said that they were "very interested" in following the proceedings. Now only 39% remained that interested, with the major shift taking place in mid-October. Significantly, the greatest apathy was among Nixon voters and the undecided...
...founder of Israel's first kibbutz, or communal settlement, Shmuel Dayan* was often in an exultant mood. His enthusiasm reflected the spirit of other Utopian experiments-virtually all of which failed. Now, in Israel's 25th year, the conditions that sustained the kibbutz in its early days have changed, and some Israelis are questioning whether their experiment can last...
What snatches Mother back from the brink of tedium is the talent and unpolluted enthusiasm-of its young ten-member cast. Kelly Garrett, all bangs and boots and big, big eyes, sings from somewhere deeper than the thorax. Each time her small frame produces that large voice it is a surprise, and after a while the listener understands that there is more than physical equipment and technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares...
Folk Mystique. Married only three years ago, Bates, 38, has taken to domesticity with enthusiasm. He and his wife Victoria have a house in London's expensive Hampstead area but spend much of their time with their two-year-old twin sons in a converted barn next to his parents' home in Derbyshire. There the Midlands meet the North Country and green hedges give way to gray stone walls. "Alan is a Derbyshire boy," says Actor Jeremy Brett, a close friend. "That's one better than being a Welshman. The Derby hills have a magic like...
COACHING BACKGROUND: Gamble's infectious enthusiasm got its first outlet in the direction of coaching football in 1954 when he went to Clayton (N.J.) High School. The plague ended four years later when mosied on south to Audubon (N.J.) leaving the Clayton community the sweet memories of two victories in those four seasons, both of them over Audubon High. He spent the next four years spreading cheer among the Audubon population and in fact in 1960 he was nominated for "South Jersey Coach of the Year" honors, largely on the strength of his squad's 0-0 tie against Clayton...