Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
...back home in Brooklyn, they heard that Conductor Zipper was in the U.S. on a cultural mission for the Philippines. They buttonholed him with a proposition: if they could form a Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, would he stay and conduct it? Said 45-year-old Herbert Zipper: "They were so earnest . . . besides, it was a creative challenge." He stayed...
...luxury approach which limited travel by air. Trippe proclaims in his high and earnest voice: "The average man has been the prisoner of two keepers, time and money." Having conquered time, Trippe hopes to cut fares so that anybody with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will...
They were the earnest faces of last year's freshman and junior varsity squads, of House football players and returnces from the never-never land of probation. And they were all trying to get berths on a varsity squad which has lost only three of its first 30 men--trying so hard that they tripped over each other in the sprints and banged heads in the blocking drills...
Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...