Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputation as a Mao enthusiast, Li differed with the chairman on several occasions. One was in 1958 over the ill-conceived Great Leap Forward. Another was in 1962, when Mao decided to send party cadres to work among the peasants. "Damn it," he reportedly complained, "we have not even completed our revolution in Peking. How can we make progress if we weaken our organization by sending cadres down to labor...
Died. Fairfield Osborn, 82, crusading conservationist and from 1940 to 1968 president of the New York Zoological Society; in Manhattan. A wildlife enthusiast with a flair for showmanship -he once attended luncheon with a skunk, a chimpanzee and a ring-tailed lemur in tow-Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running...
...Rain (a sort of parable play that was a critical success and audience bomb in London and New York). Are you thrilled? Even if they are great productions, are you going to go? I doubt it. You are not going to go, because, unless you are a real theatre enthusiast, you have either no interest in seeing any of these plays in any form or you have already seen them and don't want a second helping...
...book, which will be published in English under the title Chariots of the Gods?, Hotelman Erich von Daniken builds his thesis with the zeal-and sometimes the evidence-of a flying-saucer enthusiast. Thus, chapters 1 and 3 of Ezekiel (the prophet's famous fiery-wheel vision) are cited as Biblical descriptions of flying saucers, and Genesis 6, in which the "sons of God" mate with the "daughters of Men," is presumed to describe the spacemen's couplings with earthlings. Even the Ark of the Covenant becomes an intercom system through which the prophets received the word from...
Richard Nixon, by contrast, is an all-round sports enthusiast who not only fol lows the sports pages with the attention of a Monday morning quarterback, but has learned to relax by attending sports events and by participating in sports as well...