Word: enthusiast
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Decades later, he reflected, "I have no doubt at all that my later achievement as coach of the winning Harvard Varsity, after many years of defeat, was the controlling factor in getting me favorable consideration on the part of President Roosevelt, an ardent Harvard and football enthusiast, for the high appointment he gave me to the Philippines...
...William F. Buckley (whose opinions you seem to respect) wrote in the December 30 issue of National Review, "The linkage [of Duke and Buchanan] is morally irresponsible....Duke the sometime KKK wizard and Nazi enthusiast is as reasonably linked with Buchanan as Norman Thomas is with Stalin." That is to say, not very...
...computer terminal, mulling over some late-breaking story, raising questions, smoothing transitions, apparently impervious to the late hour. That iron-man constitution should serve him well as the leader of TIME's Olympic team. Joining Ferrer for the task is senior editor Stephen Koepp, a ski enthusiast on a break from his duties in the Business section...
...with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev's building of the Berlin Wall. In retrospect, J.F.K. resembles Marrs' Galahad less than a gang leader like The Godfather's Michael...
...republic's most bountiful and boundless founts of optimism; yet the occasion is more likely to be marked abroad than in the U.S. Henry Miller -- his middle name was Valentine -- was born the day after Christmas, 100 years ago, and spent the next 88 years as a professional enthusiast, making a living out of pleasure and a music out of saying yes. Where an Old World master, like the peerless Graham Greene, could write elegant circles around doubt, hedging belief in with a knot of moral ironies, Miller just went straight to faith. From the first page of his first...