Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan. "I wish I could be a lawyer, a great stage performer, a John Gielgud, an archcriminal. I would love to plot the strategy of a great bank holdup. I frequently plotted one and never carried it through." Then Miller's pleasant voice hits a note of deadly earnest. "I can think of no higher honor than of being asked by the citizens to be mayor of Chicago. I have certainly indicated an interest to a nucleus of people whom it is important to tell first before I tell the electorate...
...horticulturist operating an outfit called Michael's Greenhouses, Inc., had a Manhattan rendezvous with Evangelist Billy Graham. Preacher Graham, though deploring the publicity about their meeting, acknowledged that he had first gone to work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What do you call it. that thing they say before food? Grace? Yeah, grace. Then we talked a lot about Christianity and stuff...
...refreshing change in others, e.g., asked by Mummy to mow the lawn, he only drawled: "Sorry, Cat. no can do. I'd use the wrong muscles." Husband No. 3 was Actor Robert Wilcox, a "courtly" alcoholic just out of psychiatric treatment. With him. Diana began drinking in earnest. Mummy died, leaving orders that "her body was to lie in state [and] Wagner's Parsifal to be played continuously on her Capehart ... I was not sober when I stood above her open grave...
...camera caught the stare of a bored little girl caught up in a group of gesticulating farmers, flickered over the strained, sweat-lined faces of steelworkers stoking their furnaces, and watched while a painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Excerpt: "So the farmers rose up. At the head of the fighters stood a farmer, George Washington. And the distinguished Thomas Jefferson was there too. The great Polish fighters, Kosciusko and Pulaski, also took part in the fight. In 1776 the uprisers were victorious. The Congress...
...whom reactions are always strong and most often favorable, the majority opinion holds that his intense and nearly formidable exterior is the true earnest of a lively and curious intellect, and that his seeming dogmatism and frank outspokeness is rather an extremely moral and courageous statement of opinion for its own sake. According to one of his former students, he will often take a point as the devil's advocate, in order to stimulate discussion and thinking. And he is always willing to shift his opinion in those rare cases in which he is bested. Asked whether he views teaching...