Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful spiritually than his 1954 Greater London Crusade, when in three months he spoke to 1,339,400 Britons and gained 38,447 decisions for Christ. The 1966 campaign to conquer London for God is the most carefully planned of the evangelist's career. Advance preparation began in earnest 18 months ago, when Graham assistants set up offices overlooking Piccadilly Circus. Billy's organizers sent letters asking for cooperation to every Protestant and Anglican clergyman within 40 miles of London. The Rev. Robert Ferm, head of the enlistment team, talked to more than 4,000 clerics...
...went back to Switzerland to finish his studies and switched to law. He first saw his beautiful second cousin Sirikit when she was only 14, at a reception in Paris, where her father was the Thai ambassador. When he returned to Europe as King, he pursued her in earnest. The wedding took place in April 1950, one month be fore Bhumibol's formal coronation...
...contribution to Harvard drama that will not soon be equalled. His production of Wedekind's Spring's Awakening was the most ambitious and most successful on the Loeb mainstage this spring. Soon after, he proved himself an inventive comedian in the HDC's production of The Importance of Being Earnest. A month later his article on the Loeb appeared in the Spring issue of the Harvard Review, and on the same subject, he ably represented the forces of sanity at the panel discussion on drama held at Leverett House. Last weekend (and God knows where he and his cast found...
...teachers at Brooklyn College "sold his baby grand and started a poetry magazine" but in 1946 did a translation of Agamemnon "which was no good" partly because it was half-translation and half-play. It was after this that he then began to write for the theatre in earnest and has stuck to the form ever since. It was suggested to him once that Hogan's Goat was really a novel but "I know as much about writing novels as about playing basketball." If anything, he feels Hogan was close to movie form and hence his confidence that it will...
...Massachusetts Democrats were courting youth and the Kennedy Style at the convention, but they misread both. Youth (if one can talk about "Youth" at all) is earnest and idealistic by choice, but it is inarticulate through inexperience. And President Kennedy, if awkward in speaking style, was hardly ever awkward in phrasing or thought. At his most lucid moments he made articulate questions and tentative answers out of vague popular feelings...