Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest, self-effacing civilian engineer who was to have commanded the Gemini 9 mission, had spent six years checking out the hottest planes aloft as a General Electric test pilot when he became an astronaut in 1962. Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
...bizarre, decadent world of the superspy naturally inspires a certain amount of earnest speculation. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounces Bondomania as "a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex," though permissive Dr. Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics (TIME, Jan. 21), sees it as "healthy fantasizing and myth-making." Dr. Harold Lief of Tulane's Department of Psychiatry thinks Bond's Playboy philosophy may reflect society's changing values and the shape of things to come-"another manifestation of the trend toward greater female aggressiveness, the separation of love...
...raids are mauling them badly and their losses are high. Another answer came from South Viet Nam, where Columnist Joseph Alsop explained that as he saw it, "the problem that has been examined at Honolulu is peculiarly clear. Provided that the President is willing to wage war in earnest, all sorts of signs indicate that this is a war that can be won-perhaps a lot sooner than most people imagine...
...Broadway found itself increasingly prey to the worst of Broadway's ailments, the hit-or-flop syndrome. So the off-Broadway theater is in crisis-an un-fabulous invalid. Luckily, this decline has zapped most vanity productions and self-indulgent exercises in beatnicknack-ery. The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer venturous playgoers a measure of dramatic experiment and serious theater...
...conclusion is pallid; Author Sciascia's novel starts more promisingly than it ends. Much of its second half is given over to an incongruously earnest subplot concerning a Jacobin revolutionary and his bloody, awful torture at the hands of the government. Even so, readers who remember Giuseppe di Lampedusa and his Leopard's lament for a lost aristocracy will be amused by this compensatory catcall from the other side of the island...