Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonderful baritone intoning, "I've had the great, good fortune of working here for 35 years." Well, I've had the great, good fortune of working with Ed for the past 2 1/2 years, and TIME has had the great, good fortune of having Ed's drive and enthusiasm and deep loyalty for 25 of those 35 years. Ed was also fond of saying "I bleed TIME red," and he does. I know of no one who believes in our mission as devoutly and who has served it as ably. In just the past six years, Ed has been instrumental...
...comic history of the élite. There's the Mayflower ancestry and the expulsion from Exeter--followed by a Harvard acceptance letter. ("It was a little easier to get into Harvard in those days," recalls Plimpton's brother Oakes.) The founding of The Paris Review offers proof that enthusiasm can trump disorganization, but Plimpton doesn't come into focus until his brief engagement to Bee Dabney, who dumps him for a friend at their engagement party. Dabney tells the tale here, but it was hardly a secret; Plimpton dined out on it for years. "That was quintessential George," says John...
Much of that reservoir is African American. While Bush chipped into Ohio's black vote in 2004, the Obama campaign expects to see black support above 90%. In a county like Hamilton, which is one-quarter African American, that enthusiasm could provide the margin of victory. Obama's army has blanketed the county with signs and posters. Capitalizing on Ohio's early-voting law, it has organized van rides to shuttle students, low-income residents and even homeless voters to the early polling station downtown. One Obama aide says the campaign needs socially conservative whites on the East Side...
Some attendees, however, said that the chilly weather dampened their enthusiasm...
This Tuesday will be the first time most Harvard undergraduates are able to vote in a presidential election. For us and others our age, that fact alone makes this presidential election revolutionary. Yet all the attention paid to our generation’s enthusiasm threatens to drown out an even more potent reality—that Barack Obama is himself a transformative leader, not only because he proposes new policies, but because he will restore the promise of government that Americans have all but forgotten under George W. Bush...