Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first showing in 1929. Now, at last collected and vended by Viking Press (Paintings of D. H. Lawrence; $12.50), the long-forbidden fruit proves to have been outdated by onrushing realism. There is a sampling of candid nudes, but the approach is less pornographic or primitive than merely earnest. In the artistic output of Lawrence, 10,000 pictures would have been worth less than one word...
...suppose we dare not hope that Mr. Brackman realizes the exuberance he caricatures is something of a release following several months of earnest labor; or that he and his fellow reviewers will rise, in the future, to meet their responsibility not only to the "world of drama" but to the Harvard Community at large. Bob J. K. MacCarran...
...Finest Hours is an earnest, intelligent, generally uncritical documentary conceived as a tribute to Winston Churchill, who will be 90 on Nov. 30. Like Sir Winston's own work, and often in his own eloquent words, the film renders autobiography as history, submerging the private man in favor of the grand public figure who served his country, and his century, as First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister through two world wars. "It was the nation and the race dwelling around the world that had the lion's heart," he declares. "I had the luck...
...earnest if somewhat amateurish biography, Yvette is finally portrayed in truer colors. She was nearer vestal than scarlet. As a critic noted at the time, the onstage illusion Yvette so shatteringly evoked was of knowing virginity; as stage-door admirers soon discovered, it was no illusion...
COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers. Looking back on his earnest years at Columbia and the ideologies that shaped his life, Chambers shows warmth and detachment missing from Witness. In particular, the intellectual zeal of the '30s, which demanded that an idea become conviction and that conviction turn into action, comes alive through Chambers' reconsideration of his motives and acts...