Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Feb. 17], how are the "200 earnest characters" who met for "shoptalk about sterility" (p. 56) like the "characters [who] paid 50? to get in" to "sleazy Stillman's Gym" (p. 61)? Or like the "characters not out of the stock-type catalogue" (p. 64) ? Or like the "characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology...
Page after page of The Dark Side of the Moon is filled with such stories. The author declares that they have all been carefully checked. Now & then she makes an obviously earnest attempt to analyze the Soviet point of view-to understand why a revolutionary government which inherited a "top-heavy, illiterate and decomposing" empire should think that any means of maintaining itself, however brutal, are justified. What happened in Poland, the author concludes, can never be understood in European terms: it was the application of old, half-Asiatic techniques, modified-or intensified-by 20-odd years of Marxist expediency...
...Jeest," whispered a hoarse Earnest 1, Sly '48 when contacted last night, my big opportunity, and me with laryngitis...
...Screwball." In recent months labor had been lying low. But Joe was not fooled. It was with a very earnest intent to do something that Joe Ball wrote his labor laws. There were practical objections to some of them. Some industries, notably the garment trade, believed that industry-wide bargaining and the closed shop had brought peace and stability. In the once strife-torn garment industry there has not been an important strike in 14 years. Union leaders and even some employers predicted that Ball's bills would throw some industries into chaos. They referred to Ball...
Last week, endorsing the trend (or accepting the inevitable), the Oxford Congregation voted to set up a new Honors school in psychology, philosophy and physiology. It was a victory for the scientists and modernists among the dons, a defeat for the old guard, who decry the "earnest utilitarianism" of the present undergraduates...