Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really think I'm worth 1.5 million a year," or, "golly, forget the team, I just hope I play well." Strange stories of great players with phenomenal names like Addie Joss. Willie Keeler, Bugs Raymond, Chick Golloway--names that sound like baseball players' names--are told with great enthusiasm, and recall a bygone, homegrown age when sore arms were treated with a mixture of vaseline and tobacco sauce...
...added, "His expert knowledge and his enthusiasm made even a paleography seminar exciting and fun. He was a person whose verve and perceptiveness spilled over into everything...
...potential power of mood, of attitude, is immense. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," Emerson wrote. But Americans sometimes consider matters of mood to be unmanly, or fraudulent, or self-deceptive. "It's almost like the old ghost dances that the Indians used to go through in hopes that they could bring back what they had lost," says Carol Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their...
...enthusiasm reflects not only the fading of the memory of Viet Nam but the attention that the Reagan Administration has given to the defense budget. Military pay scales have increased 38% since 1980. "Before 1980," says Navy Commander Kendell Pease, "there were articles about enlisted men on food stamps. Now that's turned around...
...preferring historical nonfiction. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 lbs., he is a good golfer (handicap: 8), and likes to skin dive and spear fish around his waterfront house in Laguna Beach. But until 1978 he had never really considered sport as anything more than a free-time enthusiasm...