Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chasers, the first group at the Mamas and Papas concert, have a pleasant, if slightly guitary sound, but they had to play with the house lights on, and absolutely no one in the vast smoky armory paid the slightest attention to them. Discovering later that they are earnest Tufts undergraduates makes you feel guilty that you, too, didn't clap...
Judging by its public statements, the U.S. government still hopes to convince Thant that he is the "indispensable man" and that he should stay on for at least part of his term. "The U.N. needs him," Ambassador Goldberg told the General Assembly in his opening speech. "We reiterate our earnest hope that he will heed the unanimous vote of the membership and permit his tenure of office to be extended." Officials apparently believe that Thant can be persuaded to serve if the U.S. and Russia are unable to agree on a successor...
Beauty may not be the nation's most urgent issue, but it is significant that in an earlier day, it might have seemed almost frivolous. Today, in a basically affluent society, people have the time and the means to take it seriously. The most earnest liberal reformers now assert that the big challenge, in one form or another, is the quality of the American environment...
...Battle of Algeria, Gillo Pontecorvo's earnest, overlong semi-documentary about the bitter struggle for Algerian independence, impressed the judges so much that they awarded it the festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed by France's gifted Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and blessed by the presence in the leads of Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Fahrenheit is a Ray Bradbury story that takes a disturbing look at a future world in which the printed word is forbidden and every last book...
Still, Lyndon Johnson intends to exert all the influence at his command to re pay Democrats who have done their best to support his Great Society programs. This week, with a Labor Day speech in Detroit, the President sets out in earnest on a campaign trail that will carry him to all 50 states before...