Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest racial jockeying can be suspended, the question of who has soul actually becomes intriguing, if rather fanciful fun. The very elusiveness of the soul concept invites a freewheeling, parlor-game approach. Not long ago, in an eleven-page feature on the soul mystique, Esquire half seriously argued that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the haves and the havenots?soul-wise. Others have taken up the sport, which prompts the engaging notion that important personalities of history and legend can be classed in these terms...
...noted in this week's Education section, commencement speakers fanned out across the U.S. to offer earnest advice to this year's graduates. Among the speakers were two from Time...
...taken on a tray in bed or, if one is able and ambitious, in the mess hall with the scores of other shuffling men in their faded blue pajamas. It is the colonel making his rounds, passing out Purple Hearts and, oddly, saying "Congratulations" with each presentation. Day is earnest conversation with the guy in the next bed, and jokes, not good but well shared. Day in Ward 6, Surgical, is a bore...
...this exercise." Accordingly, Harriman proposed that both sides get down to substantive and secret discussions. For the present, Hanoi has pooh-poohed the suggestion. Nevertheless, U.S. diplomats expect Hanoi to realize eventually that its propaganda tactics will bring diminishing returns-and at that point will begin to negotiate in earnest...
...hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...