Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such far-reaching change as a general staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
...Academy of Advanced Management at Saranac Lake, N.Y., also offers courses at Manhattan's Sheraton-Astor Hotel and in nine other cities. Its programs are broadly divided into studies of basic-management principles, organization-building, planning and controlling, and appraisal of operational performance. They include a deadly earnest game in which five teams of executives battle to win shares of a mythical common market. Like an adult Monopoly, the game allows each team a certain amount of money, gives each team a chance to increase its take by making decisions on such problems as advertising, promotion, distribution, etc., scores...
...autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser & Co. in their noisy pan-Arabism and holy-war complex against Israel, yet stepped forward in an earnest attempt to reach some solution with Tunisia's Bourguiba of the mess in Algeria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...London, was born and raised in the Ukraine. Her re-creation of childhood is movingly written and preserves the old Russia-with its endless talk, fumbling aspirations and comfortable inefficiency-like a giant in amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned...
...Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith: "If young people behaved after World War II exactly as they did before it, there would really be something wrong with them." The student now simply faces a different kind of world. It demands that he be brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps the most significant.paradox in collegiate life is that today's intellectual calm is largely the result of the rising level...