Word: earnest
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This is a book for all those who, like Thomas Jefferson, think of France as every man's second country. A Swiss journalist who has lived for ten years in Paris, Herbert Luethy, 37, writes about France with caustically earnest and wide-ranging impartiality, a depth of historical per spective, and a total absence of lecturing, hectoring or sentimentalizing. Luethy calls his book "an attempt to draw up an inventory of what has survived, and also of what has become ossified, in the France of the present day." Though his portentous paradoxes are far from glib, they face...
...matter which in his opinion may threaten . . . international peace." In practice, this means that the S.G. may inject himself into any international dispute he thinks he can help to settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world capital to another. He got nowhere with it. Ruefully, Trygve Lie warned his successor: "This is the most impossible job in the world...
Readers of Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME. Sept. 27) will be familiar with many of Author Whitman's ideas and characters; her common man is first cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying...
...action finally and awesomely explodes, the upper-crusters crumble to bits. An old steelworker's sons, the power-vaunting Bart Mijack and his murderous brother, destroy their family, their union, their community and, in a last, lurid, mountain-top climax, their own lives. This is a big, dark, earnest book with all its wallop in the last pages...
...Despite Manager Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky's earnest efforts to mind his manners, his hard-hitting, pitcher-poor St. Louis Cardinals have been limping along in sixth place. It was all too mild and mellow for Cardinal President August Anheuser Busch Jr. Last week he fired Stanky, gave his job to Harry ("The Hat") Walker, onetime National League batting champion (in 1947 with .363), who has spent the past three seasons managing the Cardinals' Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League...