Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joseph begins his article by complaining that campus activists need "to regain popularity and inspire enthusiasm" by achieving "some tangible success on campus." Finals clubs, he reasons, "would serve as excellent targets for agitation" because they "exclude students because of gender and, more often than not, race, religion and lack of athletic ability...
...enthusiasm and applause, although they seemed hearty on television, were in fact strained. Younger conservative House members came to the chamber determined to whoop it up for a beleaguered President -- the more so because some had been warned by Republican Leader Robert Michel, who had seen an advance copy of the address, that "it ain't going to be much of a speech." The Young Turks leaped to their feet clapping and shouting at the most routine lines, pretty much forcing senior Republicans to join...
There is something intimate about a Lacroix presentation, a revelation of taste and spirit that goes beyond the usual limits of professionalism. In fact, compared with Saint Laurent's aesthetic poise or Lagerfeld's streamlined efficiency, Lacroix's enthusiasm looks not quite grown-up, as if he were engaged in a kind of dress-up game. "I do play at being a couturier," he ! acknowledges with a sigh...
What activists need to regain popularity and inspire enthusiasm at Harvard is some tangible success on campus. Rather than dealing exclusively with South Africa, activists should vary their punch and also attack divisions and stratification right here at Harvard. Indeed, campus protesters have so far been disturbingly blind to the barriers which continue to plague our community...
...communist revolution was won in the countryside, but political power now rests in the urban areas, precisely where the reforms have generated less enthusiasm. To older workers in state industries, the demand for greater efficiency, with the threat of bankruptcy as the goad, presages more work with less job-security. Government bureaucrats and factory party committees resent and dislike the price rises which the partial freeing of the market has already meant...