Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter is precisely halfway through his first term as President of the United States, a job he sought almost obsessively, began with a poorly directed enthusiasm and now fulfills with somewhat erratic results. He has performed diligently, but with limited success. He has won victories, suffered defeats, made mistakes, learned from the job, built a record of some competence and of far-reaching efforts at reform occasionally interspersed by silly blunders. He has reversed a major decline in his popularity, yet he is still something of a stranger in his own party, attacked from its broad ideological wings left...
...Union address, he confronted one of the most serious political problems of his presidency: his inability to lay claim to the unshakable support of any single constituency. Even though the legislative branch is filled with members of his own party, they received his speech with almost as little enthusiasm as they showed the pariah Richard Nixon in his last State of the Union message...
Harris presents a mixed future for physical fitness: enthusiasm for exercise is on the rise, but a grumbling resistance to the trend is also digging in. The pollster offers a carrot of sorts to the anti-jogging, antisports crowd: the psychological benefits of exercise are so obvious, he asserts, that many troubled, chair-bound Americans may wish to take it up as a form of therapy...
Though Washington officials had cause for their enthusiasm, the personal triumph last week belonged to Teng. For 40 minutes, the diminutive Chinese leader sat perched on a blue silk sofa in Woodcock's living room as guests were served an appropriate, but unsettling, combination of Coca-Cola, Chinese orange soda pop, apple pie and egg rolls. Teng chain-smoked and drank local beer as he listened to Woodcock's plea for more living and working space for U.S. diplomats when the liaison office becomes a full-fledged embassy on March...
...should know enough to stay away from such a gutsy jazz singer's standard. Serenade features Joe Farrell's tenor sax, an undersung quantity if there ever was one. Stanley Clarke performs a lengthy acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries off this whole venture by himself, and here, on his own, he imaginatively probes his Spanish roots and builds...