Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question why. True, The Good Mother garnered some enthusiastic reviews, and the publisher, evidently sensing a winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what a considerable number of people are ready to hear...
...motivational program for personal excellence which is geared towards the individual. You have to build your enthusiasm to enthuse the people around you," says Brumage...
...election day. Perhaps this grassroots plan made a virtue of necessity, given the scarcity of wealthy patrons for Gallagher, who is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Still, the candidate's refusal to hide behind prepared statements and overprotective staffers reflected an enthusiasm rare in modern technocratic politics...
...some contend that hardware too often takes center stage in ILM films and that the familiar "ILM look" is too cold and technology-driven. Others claim that the spirit of innovation is waning as the company becomes bigger and more successful. "A lot of wild, rebellious enthusiasm seems to be palling a bit, for better and for worse," says Lucas. "While it's reassuring to see the company becoming more stable and professional, it's a challenge to keep things fresh and alive...
...wrappers wherever in Mississippi his notions have nudged him, set out in search of blues players the other day. White, who books acts in Jackson and has a piece of a nightclub and aspires to open a restaurant, is something of a state celebrant; indeed, so sedulous is his enthusiasm for Mississippi that one need only ride along a few short miles listening to him before the bitterweed growing wild on the shoulders of the road begins to look like daisies. "I get homesick when I have to cross a border," White says, and he means...