Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chanting Indian songs to the drone of a harmonium, blessing his guru, encompassing and blending into all the cosmic trivia he records, Ginsberg emerged at last, the Hippie Siddhartha--half desperately earnest, half just Putting on the Squares...
COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers Looking back on his earnest years at Columbia, his falling out with the Communist party and with the ideologies that shaped his life, Chambers shows warmth and detachment missing from Witness. In particular, the intellectual zeal of the thirties, which demanded that an idea become conviction and that conviction turn into action, comes alive through Chambers' reconsideration of his motives and acts...
...Women on the Warpath). Undismayed, Evans ran a tough campaign with emphasis on his earnest and considerable intelligence and a progressive brand of Republicanism. Though the pros counted him out early in the campaign, he pulled ahead and beat Christensen...
There was at least one attempt, late in 1963, to bring Tshombe back, and when the revolutionary activity in northern and northeastern Congo became serious, negotiations between Tshombe and the government began in earnest. The feeling grew that only a "government of reconciliation" could hold the country together. Adoula's government certainly was not doing it. Tshombe was the only man who had any effective control of Katanga. He had won only 25 of 60 legislative seats in Katanga's only election, and without ever controlling the province military, had power and connections in Katanga far greater than...
...sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses, cracking movie "in" jokes, letting off steam, then back again to play the youthful games that seem so much nicer in the movies-all set to background music that rattles along in cheerful parody of several dozen of the earnest scores for vintage Hollywood spectaculars...