Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief scriptwriter and star of the show is tall, earnest Chemist Seaborg, who believes that "science should be a part of the repertory of a cultured man." The films were put together with a paltry $44,000 budget by Rice and the staff of KQED, one of the most adventurous educational stations. In most of them Seaborg chats cannily about his favorite subject: nuclear science and the elements, "the building blocks of nature." His props include batches of the nine-odd man-made elements (plutonium, berkelium, etc.), batteries of blinking lights, clicking radiation counters, and black and white checkers...
...people. Ever since the Russians put Puppet Janos Kadar on the throne, he has sought by persuasion, threat and promise to undermine the workers' councils. He understood clearly, as did they, that he must dominate them, or be himself destroyed. Last week the test began in earnest...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed...
...doing its earnest, if at times disorganized, best to meet the Hungarians' needs, and to make its position clear to the world. When Russian tanks drew up before the U.S. legation in Budapest to intimidate Hungarians who were seeking American aid, Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy called in the Russian embassy's Counsel Sergei Striganov in Washington, condemned the Soviet action, called it a reflection of the "deplorable situation in Hungary." demanded that his message be brought "immediately to the attention of the Soviet government...
...blind live and learn only among their own kind. Then, in the 1940s, hundreds of premature infants, though saved by incubators, were stricken with retrolental fibroplasia and blindness because of an overexposure to oxygen. As these children grew to school age, the integration movement finally got going in earnest. Today, scores of cities across the U.S. are now giving sightless children a full chance at a normal schooling...