Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no formal ties and in their creaky post-race state, admitted that the five years have sapped much of the muscle tone and some of the competitive spirit. Stroke Peter Lowe '74 says one advantage remained however: "With Billy Hobbs'stomach the way it was, it wasn't that difficult...
Referring to Kennedy's complaint that Carter should place less emphasis on "the malaise" in the country and more on inspiring a "can do" spirit, the President declared: "People are discouraged about the current situation. They are doubtful about the future. . . But our country is inherently strong, capable and able. We're the strongest nation on earth economically, politically and militarily. We're going to stay that way . . . We can resolve the malaise that has existed...
...Kennedy clan will be on hand, of course, as will Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy, Pierre Salinger and about 6,000 other folks touched by the spirit of Camelot during the reign of J.F.K. With so many luminaries expected, an invitation to Saturday's dedication of the John F. Kennedy Library has become the hottest ticket in Boston since the 1978 playoff between the Red Sox and the Yankees in Fenway Park. The present President, Jimmy Carter, was invited, but ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were not. That was the decision of the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver...
...fade. The nation that produced Robert Fulton, Robert Goddard, Edmund Land and many others now has far fewer folk-hero tinkerers. Laments James G. Cook, president of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation: "Over the past decade, America has been losing its traditional leadership in technological innovation. Our Edison-like spirit of inventiveness seems to be going the way of the gas lamp...
Seigenthaler smiles as he speculates that perhaps the spirit and vigor of the Kennedy administration was all in our heads. "But no," he says with more conviction, "there really was that sense of purpose." It was in this spirit that the Justice Department sent Seigenthaler to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961 to protect the freedom riders, who were protesting segregation in the south. While trying to save three women riders from a "mob attack" he was hit with an iron pipe and knocked unconscious...