Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's delightful farce stars Patrick (The Avengers) Macnee, Susannah York, Pamela Brown, Ian Carmichael and William Redmond...
...Reagan's proposal to impose tuition and cut the budget at both the university and the state colleges. During the rally, the Governor showed up and heard one professor accuse him of seeking to "dismantle California's institutions of higher learning." But Reagan earned applause with his earnest offer to discuss the schools' problems "around the table in an atmosphere of good will." This week the regents will meet in Santa Barbara for another round of debate on the future of the university's complicated fiscal affairs...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in Neil Simon's past hits, he remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring...
...BEST OF HERMAN'S HERMITS, VOL II (MGM). The Hermits are still the Cub Scouts of rock 'n' roll, gentle, boyish and earnest. Sample homilies from Herman, sung to a junior Beatle beat: "Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime" (from Listen People) and "Make the most of lovin' if you're not prepared to die" (from This Door Swings Both Ways...
...biggest role for business may lie in the future, when the U.S. sets out in earnest to reinvigorate its deteriorating urban centers. "In improving our cities,"Chase Manhattan