Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slight smile, the soft, husky Reagan voice. Almost gentle. And yet a bugle call of sorts for 1984. Reagan's enthusiasm grew as he got into his subject. His color heightened. He leaned forward from his couch and worked his hands. Far below his 26th-floor hotel room, the hubbub of the Republican National Convention was rising in anticipation of his acceptance speech that night. Reagan already was far beyond that in his mind, building "America's party" and an "opportunity society...
...more. Who would exercise more effective leadership? Reagan, said those polled, 58% to 24%. Who would be better in times of crisis? Reagan, 57% to 22%. Who is the more dynamic and exciting candidate? Again, no contest: 52% Reagan, 26% Mondale. Indeed, Mondale has stirred so little personal enthusiasm that his support is largely an "anti" phenomenon. No less than 47% of those who would vote Democratic today say their ballots would really be cast against Reagan rather than for Mondale. By contrast, 61% of those choosing the President say they are indeed "for" Reagan...
...that makes her look like the last of the 19th century optimists, so be it. But with what enthusiasm, with what generosity she invited the human race to share her faith! This may be what Gregory Bateson meant when he predicted that in the years ahead people will recognize Margaret Mead's contribution as being enormous-without being able to say quite why. -By Melvin Maddocks...
...black-ruled Zimbabwe was white-ruled Rhodesia, it was a bastion of conservatism and free enterprise. But last week, after four years of independence, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 60, declared his intention to transform the former British colony into a one-party Marxist state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping...
...Mayor Edward Koch to Philanthropist and Civic Leader Brooke Astor, also praise him in what has become an almost monotonously approbative Gregorian chant. Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the New York Public Library and former chairman of Time Inc., says, "Greg has a strange combination of scholarship, energy, drive, salesmanship, enthusiasm and even a certain naivet...