Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
...group of loyal wives, like the woman from Florida who nominated her husband -"on behalf of all husbands and fathers who, though part of the establishment, set an example of honesty, integrity and purposeful endeavor for their sons and daughters to emulate." And chances are no one was more earnest than the high school student from Okinawa, who nominated his father, a U.S. serviceman. "When I needed him, he was always there...
Henry M. Hart Jr. '26, Dane Professor of Law said that changes in the academic program would require from five to ten years to implement, even after the student-faculty committees began to work on them in earnest. "Changes would therefore not affect the current law school classes at all," Hart said...
...indulged in deliberate misunderstandings-the U.S. motivated by its desire to talk substantive peace as quickly as possible, South Viet Nam by its reluctance to sit down with the Communists. The episode contains some lessons, for such conflicts will occur again if and when the Paris negotiations start in earnest. TIME State Department Correspondent Jess Cook's analysis of what went wrong...
...Then, with Ted leading the way, the group formed into a circle and began to march around the room, alternately very stiff and very relaxed. Over the loud-speaker, a minuette began to play--and at that point, the first performance of Cambridge's Free Dance Theatre began in earnest...