Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic themes were consistent. They were also upbeat and positive...
...however, based not only on nostalgia but also on a sense of what is happening once again with Beatles records. Even as McCartney brings the crowds to their feet at his concerts, five old Beatles songs are in the British Top 20. Capitol is gearing up to release an upbeat anthology of Beatles goldies in two weeks, and plans to spend a million dollars on promotion alone, the largest campaign in the company's history. Along with TV ads, Capitol plans to bedeck the country's leading record stores with Beatles banners and posters and, accordingly, has purchased...
...Upbeat Assessment. Despite these upbeat assessments, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government attempted to play down Vorster's visit as merely a private call. One reason could have been that the ordinarily astute Israelis appeared to have been taken in: a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, Vorster asked to come on a Lenten pilgrimage and then showed up with an unexpectedly large entourage, which had the effect of turning his visit into an official call. "Israel was taken," a U.S. State Department official said in Washington. "It was a sneaky but clever psychological move...
Reagan tends to end on the upbeat. America can be saved if people reject the siren call of socialism and return to free enterprise. If he is tipped that a former Viet Nam prisoner of war is in the audience-and sometimes even when one is not-Reagan pays tribute to the nation's P.O.W.s. After a straightforward, not to say prosaic delivery, there is a glimpse of the old actor. His voice lowered, his throat catching, but with conviction, he declares: "They are just simply the product of the greatest free system the world has ever known...
Battling "bloody cold" weather as well as our neighbors to the north, a shorthanded Harvard ski team began its season on the upbeat in the Canadian-American IAS race at Sunday River, Maine, last week...