Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most ads, however, particularly those for lingerie and toiletries, go about the sexy sell in earnest. Revlon's Intimate perfume pictures a pretty girl and asks: "What makes a shy girl get Intimate?" Wonders another wistful-looking filly: "Was it him . . . or his Piping Rock...
...Farrug to handle his case for no fee. On first meeting his scrawny client, Farrug felt immediate compassion: "He looked so small and helpless. There was the enormity of the prison, the towering guards, the prison clothes a little too big for him." Danny himself could hardly believe the earnest stranger's promise that "you have the whole American tradition of law and justice behind you." From his side of the bars, he could only smile skeptically at one of Farrug's letters: "It's a pretty great thing to live in a society where people will...
...uprising began in earnest on March 10 when Ky's junta dismissed Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, long considered Ky's chief rival for power within the Directory. Administration experts are convinced that the ambitious little general was only Tri Quang's pawn. "Thi's dismissal simply gave the movement a little more whammy," said a top State Department expert. In Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy's view, Tri Quang's men want to "accelerate the timetable" for a change in government in order to set up "a constitution and elections that would...
...Lawrence once described himself as "a kind of human bomb." The bomb exploded in all directions. Lawrence left 14 brooding, contentious novels, dozens of excited essays, scores of loose, somewhat lumpy poems, and hundreds of febrile, fretful letters. He painted, occasionally, as he wrote, in an earnest, impetuous manner. All of these disjecta membra have been examined with fascination and respect by a large number of critics, biographers and memoirists, but they have all but ignored the skeleton in Lawrence's literary closet: he was also a playwright...
Drawing-room comedy is not often performed at Harvard, and maybe that's an unfair label to throw at Wilde, who was certainly no drawing-room playwright. But The Importance of Being Earnest is a funny play, and whatever its present production lacks in cohesiveness, it makes up for in laughs...