Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor's answer was much more representative of the earnest, if puzzled, search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan...
...grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm, the American correspondents, the travelers ("Russia is simply wonderful so immense so throbbing earnest vital people so happy everywhere thrilled with communism building socialism") and the overwhelming sense of relief upon reaching Constantinople...
...orchestra, although it expressed its admiration for Stravinsky loudly after each composition, betrayed little inspiration in its playing. In addition, there were several sloppy entrances; solo playing especially was inferior to B.S.O. standards. However, some of this may be attributed to the difficulty of the scores, and Stravinsky's earnest but inexpert conducting...
...deeply earnest play, Forward the Heart is now & then a dramatic one. In the main roles, William Prince (The Eve of St. Mark, John Loves Mary) does well enough and Mildred Joanne Smith (St. Louis Woman, Set My People Free) very well. Yet Forward the Heart sharply fails. It mingles two such general problems as race and rehabilitation to produce the most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve...
...solemnly recited before the altar by the clergy and the people together. Is it consistent for one who represents definite denial of that creed to be asked to take official part in a service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United States? . . . The suggestion which such action obviously conveys to the young people who attend the service is that it makes no difference whether they believe the Christian Creed...