Word: upbeatness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jimmy Carter seemed to be off to a promising start. From the cold-eyed cynics of the Washington press corps and the aloof observers of academe on to the "show me" proprietor of the Summit Hill bar in Hartford, Conn., the initial reaction to the Carter presidency was impressively upbeat...
...three who did comment were cautionary but essentially upbeat. "There are enormous problems," says Bush. "Problems of judgment, problems of management. But I don't see any insurmountable ones that a prudent person can't handle...
...once again in the limelight. For the first time since 1970, the Columbia basketball team spent last week in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League, an exhilarating achievement that has galvanized Morningside Heights. The new-found success of the once lowly Lions has struck an upbeat note in that microcosm of a community surrounded by the basketball-crazed West Side, but it is only one facet of the resurgence of college basketball in New York City. New York has long been recognized as the cradle for collegiate basketball, but until this year New Yorkers seldom...
When Midwesterners did get around to talking about Carter, most of them sounded upbeat. Said Donald Percy, a vice president at the University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have...
...Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin . . ." Law 4: "We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives." Simplistic theology, but thousands testify that this upbeat message has led them into the kingdom. Campus Crusade policy is to steer its converts into local churches...