Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of disunion may be greater than ever. The group of inbred Democrats who have controlled the thought and mechanics of official Washington for so long is exquisitely geared to "issues," having encyclopedic knowledge of programs and laws but limited sensitivity to the intangibles of leadership, like boldness and enthusiasm, that cannot be written into bills and dropped in a legislative hopper. The Democrats have not had a candidate who possessed those qualities since John Kennedy. Reagan has been a master of the intangibles, emerging as a leader of a new populism composed of whitecollar, high-tech, professional, small-merchant...
...world. Even when he did pets-as in Fino and Tiny, circa 1791, which is dominated by a superbly rhythmical profile of the Prince of Wales' black-and-white spitz Fino-he set down their complicated markings and baroque puffs of newly washed hair with a measured, objective enthusiasm that transcended any hint of cuteness...
Aalto was crazy about wood. His enthusiasm grew out of a national aesthetic. Finns take an intense, quasi-mystical pleasure in their forested countryside, and timber is the country's economic mainstay. The hard, featureless blond birch that Aalto favored had been standard material for Finnish domestic objects. But in the polemical years around 1930, his abandonment of modern, mass-produced tubular steel was a retograde act. Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier had based their famous chairs and couches on state-of-the-art tubing. Aalto became convinced that tubular steel was "not satisfactory...
...torchlight parade through downtown Chicago that has been an election-year custom for Democrats since 1948. Flanked by the leaders of the city's two feuding factions, Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, Mondale basked in the protective glow of oldtime ward politics. Mondale's enthusiasm was matched by that of the 50,000 onlookers...
...reported to be doing remarkably well. "All vital signs are still good, and there's no sign of rejection," said Hospital Spokeswoman Patti Gentry, noting that Baby Fae was "just gulping down her formula." Outside the hospital, there was wonder and excitement over this latest medical marvel, but the enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by controversy. Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal life. "This is medical sensationalism at the expense of Baby Fae, her family and the baboon," charged Lucy Shelton of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The group...