Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger? Absolutely, says rising young (36) Historian Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind)-but not alone for the reasons that most teachers seem to think. In his latest book, Academic Freedom (Henry Regnery; $3.75), Kirk points an accusing finger at the teaching profession itself. Some of freedom's most earnest champions, he writes, are actually gnawing away its roots...
...earnest hope that the University administration through cooperation with the faculty can make arrangements to prevent similar violations of academic freedom in the future and thus restore the University of Washington its rightful and respected position in the academic world...
Ever since he joined the Penn faculty, Williams has been collecting material for a dictionary. In 1944 he finally settled down to work in earnest. He pored over every English and Spanish dictionary available; he read novels, newspapers and magazines, wrote to businessmen, lawyers, laborers and scholars for the latest words and expressions. When he had gone through the alphabet once, he started from A to Z all over again. The result: the most comprehensive dictionary of its kind...
...Weight of Concern. At other times, conferences of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers have been quiet family affairs. Australia's Menzies, a veteran of many of them, explained: "We earnest fellows come from the six corners of the world. Winston addresses us ... and after all, that is a wonderful experience. When Winston has finished, he turns round to Anthony and says, 'Would you care to say something?' ^Things go on . .. I make a few statesmanlike remarks . . . And when we have solved all the problems of the world . . . the communiqué will arrive. We will correct the grammar. Then...
...confusion in the Administration's security risk program (see below), but he left in a slip of the tongue which had the President saying Indonesia when he meant Indo-China. More reporters than usual wore television-blue shirts and eager looks, but the President maintained his customary earnest demeanor as he answered questions ranging from the Tachen crisis in Asia to how he likes his job (its blessings are "not wholly unmixed...