Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomers put their entire families to work changing sheets, sweeping floors and watching the front desk. Indian enthusiasm for the hotel trade has remained strong. Boasts Naranji Patel: "You can travel from San Francisco to New York, and there's not a town where an Indian, a Patel, is not there...
There's now surprising enthusiasm for creating an entity for which our democracy seemed to have no tolerance whatsoever five years ago. You're witnessing a radical alteration of standards. Just a short time ago, we were talking about the CIA as a rogue elephant whose wicked acts had to be reined in. Now some say we must have a mechanism for inflicting punishment on America's foes...
...reason for being is nuclear attack." Despite a voice just like Jimmy Stewart's and an utterly genial manner, Murphey sat alone in his exhibition booth almost the whole time he was there. "People aren't too interested," he admitted. "If we could just harness some of the enthusiasm that these folks show for natural disasters for civil defense...
...problem is not merely that the upper middle class's voracious enthusiasm for art of almost any kind "coincides" with the inflation of minor talents into major ones, of mere promise into claims on art history. It is that the one has produced the other. In the process, too many painters have been left without a middle ground between the miseries of oblivion and the stresses of cultural stardom. Hence fame depends, to a grotesque and absurd extent, on painters' ability to excite envy among their rivals, and the sense of common reciprocity that pervaded the art world...
...Greg Brock is up. The first pitch is a fast ball and a strike. Three seasons back, Brock's promise as a slugging first baseman influenced the Dodgers' enthusiasm for retaining Free Agent Steve Garvey. Though he has been worse than disappointing as Garvey's replacement, in New York not two weeks ago Brock hit a home run off a Gooden change-up that brought Valenzuela his only victory in their three head-on encounters to date. After that game, Johnson lectured Gooden about offering his third best pitch to those who have failed to hit the first two. With...