Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev and his deputy, Frol Kozlov, are the only top Communists who are able to get through to the people across the extraordinary gap of class distinction that separates the Communist hierarchy from the people. Communist leadership in general has failed to develop any enthusiasm or support for the system itself; this lack of enthusiasm does not promise incipient revolution, but does promise minds receptive to logical Western argument...
Probing into farmers' political opinions, Lubell found a Democratic trend still running in the Midwest, but scant enthusiasm for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson's defeats in '52 and '56 count against him, Lubell found. "A blank stare was often the reaction I got to the names of [Minnesota's] Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, [Missouri's] Stuart Symington and [Texas'] Lyndon B. Johnson." Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
Uhlan Letter to Author: "The editorial reports that have come to my attention have been most favorable. After going over it myself, I am pleased to find that I agree with what has been said. Two Years Under Arms is a tribute to the enthusiasm, the vigor, the beauty of youth...
...movie is about an inquisitive doctor with a ghoulish enthusiasm for slicing up the cadavers of those who died in fear. He is sure that fright is a living thing that survives in corpses in much the same way that hair and fingernails have been popularly believed to grow after death. So he performs an autopsy on the body of an electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets...
...main target of the week-and one that was calculated to appeal to the Poles-was West Germany. In fact, Khrushchev got his only show of genuine enthusiasm on his Polish tour when he rolled through the haunted, once-devastated "Western territories," formerly German but now Polish, and enthusiastically sided with Polish claims. Said Khrushchev, as he set the theme in Katowice: "Adenauer seems to follow in the footsteps of Hitler, who is now decaying in the earth. I say to Adenauer: 'If you try to attack the Socialist countries, you won't be able to leave your...