Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bagful of Answers. What was the boy up to? Pundits and politicians pondered, came up with a collective bagful of answers. Among them: Rocky is an earnest and patriotic man who feels compelled to provoke debate on the nation's growing problems. This was the explanation of Rockefeller himself and his advisers...
Ernest in Love. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in a tuneful adaptation...
Ernest in Love. The newest of off-Broadway musicals is Anne Croswell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, mounted with sets and costumes so painstakingly assembled that they seem to have been done for a Fifth Avenue window. Adapter Croswell was careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue. Shuffling identities and romantically mocking romance, Wilde's kaleidoscopic plot is intact as well, from the duplicity of the fellow who has a mythical sick friend called Bunbury and uses him as a shield against dull social obligations...
...land snakes, the Australian tiger snake is rated as about the most deadly. It needs to inject only 2 mg. of venom to kill a man, whereas the notorious hooded cobra must inject about 20 mg., and a big rattlesnake as much as 140 mg. Fortnight ago, Kenneth Earnest, 22, who helps run his family's reptile farm in Buena Park, 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a run-in with a greenish-grey and black-banded tiger snake. He almost lost...
After five doctors and a brigade of nurses and other aides had hovered over him continuously for ten days, Ken Earnest could talk understandably and move his eyes slightly, though the lids were still paralyzed. He was spending an hour a day out of the iron lung. This week Dr. Russell gave him a 75% chance of full recovery...