Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Optimism in Pittsburgh. More realistic than the investment community's fears about Viet Nam are the worries about a possible steel strike-but even they seem to be extravagant. As negotiations resume in earnest this week, management negotiators and the Steelworkers' 163-man wage policy committee have already resolved most of the "noneconomic" issues, will now get down to wage bargaining with a probable Aug. 31 deadline. Publicly, management claims it will not offer more than a 2¼% increase in wages, while the union asks for 4.4%, or about 50? an hour over a three-year contract...
...sifted for double or triple meanings. And he never condescends to the little tricks of storytelling that make reading easy. He is totally, Germanically humorless, and time and again displays the absurdity of the selfabsorbed: when he tries to be serious about life, he often manages merely to be earnest about himself. Yet at his best Hesse writes with diamantine clarity-not about the psychological self in current fashion, but about the metaphysical self of traditional contemplation. Hesse is not a conventional Christian; he does not believe he can be saved by belief in a god outside himself...
...years. Published last week in the midst of a harrowing Harlow revival, Today Is Tonight (Grove Press; $5) reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over." An earnest preface suggests that the girl who brought back the bosom also had a brain, but on the textual evidence, it can be said that she was at most a size 32A in the literary department...
Concerts & Cannelloni. Last week Spoleto was swinging with the usual galaxy of aristocrats, film stars and jet set. The earnest and the merely cultured rapidly settled into the ritual of their daily rounds: breakfast at 10, a midday chamber concert, a five-o'clock poetry reading and then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...
...exotic backdrop for the doings of great white hunters, drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...