Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...O.E.D. is a magnificent but inconvenient enthusiasm; the full 13-volume set costs $395 and weighs too much (80 Ibs.) to take on trips. A two-volume microprint edition has been available since 1971, but requires a magnifying glass to read. The eyestrain is well earned. The enterprise of the full dictionary engaged the labor of hundreds-editors, subeditors, voluntary readers-over more than half a century. The greatest of the dictionary's editors, James A.H. Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into...
...approval as Sadat dismissed the rejectionists as "dwarfs" and promised to press on for a just solution of the Palestinian problem, despite the "ailing minds of some of the Palestinians." Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last month may have shattered Arab unity, but there was no mistaking the enthusiasm of his own people. SADAT, GOD IS WITH YOU, WE ARE WITH YOU, read the banners. He has never been more popular at home. It is estimated that 85% of his people support him and, more important, Egypt's military leaders back...
...called himself Bos; and a Penny Pickwick, not to mention all the stage piracies and adaptations. People named their cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work of letters before or since has ever aroused such wild and widespread enthusiasm. Barely past the age of twenty-five, Charles Dickens had become world-famous, beaten upon by a fierce limelight which never left him for the remainder of his life...
...course, including two rather stoned out young women in obscene costume, but the focus is really on the Deadheads themselves. The Deadheads constitute the most devoted fans in the rock world since the Beatles stopped touring back in 1966, and they are a singularly fried bunch of people. Their enthusiasm, expressed in their LSD-induced nodding stares, is captured in harmony with the music they flock to hear...
What next? Lady Bird Johnson summed it up: "If I were an elected official, I would take due note of their earnestness, their enthusiasm-and their numbers...