Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alumna who polished her coloratura with a Marian Anderson Scholarship. The other, fittingly, was awarded the legendary Anderson herself, now 77. Hailed as "the most famous and best loved contralto of our time," Anderson received a standing ovation for her long, path-marking career. Responded she in a brief, upbeat acceptance: "It's all waiting for you out there, and you can make your lives what you want them to be. God bless you and be with you, because he can help you when no one else...
...overnight, Carter has begun sounding remarkably upbeat. At first it seemed the President hoped that by tinkering a bit with the American energy machine and by lessening the widespread tendency toward panic buying, he could shorten the lines at the pumps in California and vent some of the political pressure...
...stand. His jogs along the Atlantic had tightened a stomach already impressively taut for a man of 54. He had even cultivated a new hair style by shifting his part from right to left. And, as Jimmy Carter returned to the White House last week, he was in an upbeat mood, telling intimates that the nation's political climate was finally turning in his favor. Said one: "He knows that others don't see it that way yet, but that's how Jimmy feels. He thinks they'll come around...
...that she has an adequate excuse for her destructive behavior. It is also hard to accept the ending. Why should Jordan, having been treated with such casual cruelty, come back for more? What makes him think that Diane has changed? It all seems like a desperate reach for an upbeat conclusion...
...Israel there were some upbeat signs. As Dayan prepared to set off for the Camp David talks, Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer that he thought the Camp David negotiations would reach "a positive conclusion." Weizman added simply: "I believe that our future and Egypt's future lie together." He did not, however, discuss the vexing problem of "linkage"−Egypt's insistence that a bilateral peace agreement with Israel must be tied in some way to a plan for giving autonomy to the West Bank and Gaza...