Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 3, 1965 issue of The New Republic, Professor Morgenthau entered the Vietnam debate in earnest with an article on "Why U.S. Policy in Asia is Wrong." An admirer of Richelieu, Talleyrand, and Bismark, he could hardly be accused of starry-eyed idealism, and his name had been associated for many years with the power-conscious realist school of international relations. His central argument was that we were on the verge of entering a global anti-Communist crusade which would inevitably involve us in a disastrous war with China. In contrast to the doctrinaire emotionalism of a crusade, Morgenthau pleaded...
...even his quick retaliation for Red attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 could erase that impression. Only when Viet Cong guerrillas raided U.S. barracks at Pleiku and Qui Nhon last February did the President, with the election safely behind him, begin in earnest to intensify the U.S. role in the war. And even after he did, a chorus of protest from U.S. campuses led the Communists to believe, wrongly, that the U.S. was not united in its determination to press the war to an honorable conclusion...
...punch. I, for one, thought these kids might have a lesson in reality coming to them. When Tina, convincingly acted by Susan Schwarz, talks about her three men as aspects of "a single beautiful lover" who share her "without any jealousy" I found it hard to believe. These earnest young people were so good hearted that I began to doubt them...
...Peace. That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading War and Peace." Whether or not Doris ever suffers through all 365 chapters of Tolstoy's masterpiece, she is plainly a member in good standing of the summer self-improvement league, that earnest, ever growing army of readers who would sooner put a cherry in a martini than leave for vacation without at least one Great Book...
...goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...