Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intentions. In his day, singers, not composers or conductors, were kings; and no modern revival can ever recapture their singular contributions to a performance. For instance, two major roles in Poppea, scored for castrato voices, are sung in this recording by a countertenor and tenor, who provide earnest but ghostly approximations of the old score. The album, however, gives fine hints of how early Italian baroque opera sounded: intimate, civilized, and a trifle boring to modern ears...
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Robert J. Kleberg Jr., SC.D., president of Texas' King Ranch. Expert in domestic plant and animal genetics, earnest in the preservation of wildlife...
...between the Government and the builders on a 90%-10% basis-but only for some expenses. Boeing will actually get only $726 million in cash-on-the-line federal funds. To appease a reluctant Congress, ten U.S. airlines currently holding options on the SST volunteered $1,000,000 in "earnest money" for each of the 52 planes they have ordered. Future "progress payments" from airlines should come to $1.35 billion; tax relief in the development phase will mean another $310 million. In all, by 1975 Boeing will have scraped up a fantastic $1.06 billion on its own. G.E. will face...
...moment, none of the plans seems likely to be put to imminent use. Souvanna Phouma has made it plain that he wants no enlargement of the war in Laos beyond its present scale, fearing that the North Vietnamese would then attack non-Communist portions of Laos in earnest. Moreover, the mountainous terrain in Laos is far less favorable than that of South Viet Nam for massive use of U.S. troops. The U.S. command in Saigon feels that the large number of men required for a barrier can be better used to hit the enemy when he enters South Viet...
...Reading Dynamics develops as Mrs. Wood and her partisans contend, someday soon Bob Richards will appear on the television screen grinning healthfully and advising earnest young Americans to buy "Wheaties, Breakfast of Speed Readers"; and parents will be consoling their disgruntled children with "Don't worry son, you can't speed read...