Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, this earnest little melodrama resembles a bantam version of The Longest Day. Again the pin-up role is assigned to Irina Demick, described unpersuasively as "a girl who blows up bridges" for the French Resistance. When the Allies throng ashore, Irina and a doughty band of villagers who have sallied forth as a welcoming committee are being held hostage by the Germans. The G.I.s who liberate them include wry-smiling Sergeant Cliff Robertson and the inevitable New York Jewish joker (Red Buttons) assigned to all units for comedy relief. Since the village is under siege, Cliff is ordered...
...very considerable majority of us prided ourselves on standing aloof from causes and demonstrations," Pusey continued. "We left matters of these kinds for people we thought unimaginative and excessively earnest...
Driving in Earnest. That was probably a gross exaggeration. However many there were, there was no letup in the bloodbath or in the sniping at U.S. troops. Going into action for the first time in earnest, the 82nd Airborne joined Dominican infantrymen in pushing out from the bridge perimeter, fought their way through the city's heart to link up with a Marine column attacking from the western International Zone. The drive cost another two U.S. dead, at least a dozen wounded?and brought an announcement from Washington that 2,000 more troops were being sent in, bringing...
...This earnest, hopeless, engaging goofiness is the best of Kerouac, and it runs through the novel. His writing is successful because it is a sly parody of his boyishness. His books are a tall tale told at his own expense, and always at a decent remove from the truth. Duluoz-Kerouac fornicates, hops a freight, smokes pot, drinks a quart, sleeps unscathed. He is a bumbling Paul Bunyan working with blue bull...
...good measure, De Gaulle's emissaries were also busy last week stalling each new proposal in Brussels for increased political cooperation within the Common Market, despite earnest pleas from West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries. These tactics left almost every nation in Western Europe on the outs with him. But not the Soviet Union, which is perhaps just the way le grand Charles wants things this week. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is due in Paris on "an important visit" to discuss ticklish topics like Viet Nam and the German question, and where else can the Soviets find such...