Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After graduating from high school in Jacksonville, Randolph went north to the promised land of Harlem, which fell considerably short of expectations. He took odd jobs, attended night school at New York City College, and started reading Karl Marx aloud with the same enthusiasm that he showed for Shakespeare. Feeling that he now had an economic explanation for racial injustice, he joined others on the traditional soapbox to orate, as he put it, on "everything from the French Revolution and the history of slavery, to the rise of the working class. It was one of the great intellectual forums...
...symbol of the insanely soaring expenses of the U.S. medical care system. Government officials and consumers are questioning whether the benefits derived from the flood of innovative techniques of the past 20 years justify the high cost. Even physicians who traditionally have taken to the new technology with the enthusiasm of small boys trying out new toys, are voicing doubts...
Montreal native Gordon H. Baltuch '82 did not share Francis's enthusiasm. "I'm really disappointed-it's not too good for the country," Baltuch said...
...United States to him epitomizes the search for improvement, of enthusiasm tempered by pragmatism. "I have a great love and admiration for Americans," he says. "Americans are descendants of those in the old world who would not put up with evil. They preferred to break away and try again...
...Russet, professor of political Science at Yale and a former student and colleague of Deutsch's, recalls that, "He was just full of ideas. He had a vision of political science as a vigorous social science and an idea of how to get there. That kind of informed enthusiasm was enormously contagious to those of us who were graduate students under...