Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rally that forced the Argentine military to free then Colonel Juan Perón from prison. But despite the sentimental significance of the day, no more than 40,000 turned out to hear Mrs. Peron speak. The disappointing turnout was attributed as much to waning enthusiasm for the Peronist government itself as to fears of possible guerrilla violence...
...were Bill McCurdy, coach of the Harvard cross-country team, and you were going out for a few beers with the boys, what would you talk about? Certainly not about your present squad, which, despite an abundance of enthusiasm, is rather lacking in the experience department and, as a result, currently suffers from an 0-5 won-lost record...
...family. At one point, she exclaimed: "Not only did they kill those pigs, they shoved a fork in [Sharon] Tate's stomach and then sat down and ate dinner there." Dohrn's details were wrong-it was Leno LaBianca who was stabbed with a fork-but her enthusiasm was catching. Says Grathwohl: "For the next several days, we all went around giving a sign of three fingers extended. It was to symbolize the fork...
...started to realize I was on the track of something interesting and totally new," but she didn't know where to go with it. So she called the New York Times "and talked to a woman about my article," she says, leaning forward eagerly. But despite Scarf's own enthusiasm, the initial reception from the Times was "frosty." She submitted the article anyway and a week later the same woman called her to say, "We're buying your article. Who are you?" Scarf credits her tenacity rather than luck for her success with the Times. "You don't need pull...
...country, too much loose talk. America needs an iron hand." To which the men, archetypal 1930s lounge lizards with beautifully cut moustaches and social registers in their back pockets, respond: "Hear, hear, quite right, D.B." and thump on the table in a hollow variant of old-time prep school enthusiasm. The movie's scene could just as easily have had California regents like Edward Carter, the president and co-owner of a department store chain, gasping with admiration at the words of Reagan, another regent at that meeting...