Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most fervent supporters are afraid that the four modernizations program will survive only as long as its septuagenarian founder. Though it appears unlikely that his pragmatic goals will be abandoned, there is evidence that Hua and others in the Politburo have accepted them with less zeal and enthusiasm than Teng would like...
Silberman goes on to puncture the rightist dogma of severe punishment and electrocution enthusiasm. Certainty of punishment, not severity, deters crime; overcrowded, bestially violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional approach to prison government," Silberman writes, "is that by expecting the worst, it succeeds in bringing out the worst." Prison government might proceed more efficiently and humanely, indeed more constitutionally, by treating inmates like citizens in a community...
...observation is that there generally isn't as much interest among the students as there used to be, which I regret very much," he says. "They used to have band rallies on the steps of Widener on Fridays. Some people say this is overemphasis but it's mainly enthusiasm and emotion means a lot to a football team...
...unfortunate that Mr. Contreras' exaggerated enthusiasm for the artistic and technical features of the film leads him to almost ignore its grossly offensive depiction of the Turkish people. It is not until the very end of his long review that Mr. Contreras finally refers, as an afterthought, to what is a major (if not the major) theme underlying the movie: A hatred of the Turkish nation so blatant that it borders on racism. Throughout the film, the audience is treated to a sequence of violent and disturbing scenes where the Turks feature heavily as a nation of brutes and loonies...
Some of the euphoria clearly passed the bounds of logic, and by week's end a reaction was setting in. Though the dollar continued gaining abroad, stock and bond prices fell back somewhat. The drop indicated that realism was replacing mere enthusiasm. Carter's new program is welcome because it is far better for Government to face up to its difficulties than to continue temporizing. But the fact that the Administration and the Federal Reserve felt such drastic steps to be necessary indicates how seriously the economic situation had been deteriorating...