Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sideman with George Shearing and Stan Getz, Burton looked and acted like an earnest graduate student. He had a polished vibes approach that was based on the flowing style of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, but he still felt that his musical personality was as neatly buttoned down as his collar. So he went on his own, decked himself out in the Custer buckskins, and literally let his hair down. "I felt I should get my personality across to people," he says. "All short haircuts look the same, but no two long ones...
Only one week ago, on February 10, the slate of delegates met for the first time in a Concord motel and decided to start the campaign in earnest. On that same day, unofficial Kennedy and Reagan write-in groups decided to abandon their efforts...
...exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during the past three years; Irene Worth and John Clements are currently appearing in Heartbreak House. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are also being trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...
...frothy, but Mrs. Brown is in dead earnest. There is such a shortage of available males, she feels, that a girl has to use all her wiles to catch a man. "It is no longer a question of whether she does or doesn't," says Mrs. Brown. "She does. The question is, can she cope?" To help them cope, Mrs. Brown carefully scrutinizes the copy of Cosmopolitan, has even assembled a "manifesto" on good writing. It warns against the clichés of women's magazines such as "out of this world," "She weighed 102 Ibs. soaking...
...Purporting to explain the irreconcilable clash of son with father, the Oedipus complex, dramatically speaking, tends to reduce conflict to impasse. This is both the substance of-and the trouble with-Robert Anderson's new Broadway play, I Never Sang for My Father. Sometimes poignant, sometimes sentimental, always earnest, it essentially presents a static emotional impasse...