Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...60th birthday in the midst of a six-week reading tour at colleges in the U.S. Back in London, the Sunday Times invited some of W. H. Auden's rhyming friends to celebrate the event. Stephen Spender, Christopher Logue, Maurice Wiggin and Ted Hughes all sent in earnest occasional paeans...
Enlightenment Simplified. Ministerial interest was greatly stimulated by Hefner's earnest, marathon attempt to spell out the "Playboy philosophy." It took 25 installments and a quarter of a million words. Hefner's thesis was that U.S. society had too long and too rigorously suppressed good, healthy heterosexuality. Since its growth had been stunted, Hefner argued, all sorts of perversions flourished in its place. "You get healthy sex not by ignoring it but by emphasizing it," he maintains. And the villain at the bottom of all this? Organized religion, announced Hefner with an unabashed air of discovery. Hefner revived puritanism long...
...fastest-growing industry, autos are matching the country's phenomenal successes in cargo ships, cameras, steel and electrical equipment. Japanese manufacturers last year turned out 2,286,585 cars and trucks, which represents a 360% increase over 1960, the year the industry began mass production in earnest. Though the total is about three-fourths of Germany's sales, the ten major Japanese builders plan a 32% increase this year to 3,024,000 units, and they look to overhaul Germany in a year...
That kind of provocative coursemaking results in a mature (average age is 36) student body that includes not only bearded beats but rising young lawyers and mod yet earnest matrons. Among the most popular offerings are the New School's highly regarded art courses. Among its best-known alumnae is Eleanor Roosevelt, who studied there in the late '20s. While starring as the attorney-hero of television's The Defenders, Actor E. G. Marshall studied law at the New School. Even so astute a politician as Tammany Leader J. Raymond Jones enrolled last year in its popular...
...only time he could take Naylor was when Naylor was tiring. According to Naylor, it was Henjyoji who set Naylor off on an undefeated season. The mutual respect is obvious, but it does not stop either man from putting the screws on the other when the practice is in earnest. At the same time, a friend won't push another too hard in practice if he is injured or feels he really needs rest more than anything else...