Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Krueger's death, says Iido Gilon--who presided over the Institute's Inter-fraternity Council last year--fraternity life was "very social and a lot of fun--very upbeat...
Weisenmiller began work as a Harvard security guard in 1964. He loved his job, friend say, and was always upbeat and full of humor...
...wherewithal for a new bailout with him, but insisted there were other topics that needed to be discussed: the stalled START II treaty, terrorism, nonproliferation, Kosovo, Iraq. The trouble with those subjects is that positions on both sides are already fixed; they don't offer much for an upbeat communique. Perhaps the biggest achievement Clinton could hope for was to reassure Russians by his presence in Moscow that the U.S. and the West are still concerned about the country and still engaged with it. "Imagine us not going," says a Clinton aide. It would send the message that "Russia...
...veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over-the-top lyrics like "If all that died again would grow.../ These...
...failed dismally. "Those were seminars where you had to admit you had a problem before you came," he says. "I thought we could reach more people if we could ask, What can we do for you?" That psychotherapy-under-another-name worked, and the movement collected a roster of upbeat dispensers of inspiration, such as Sheila Walsh, author of Never Give It Up, and Barbara Johnson, of Where Does a Mother Go to Resign? To enhance the illusion of intimacy, the speakers eschew the talk-and-run approach customary at most mass gatherings and listen intently to soft Christian rock...