Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's campaign has gotten underway in earnest far earlier than ones in the recent past have as if to confirm the unusual nature of this year's politics. Graham notes the oddity of the 1964 Democratic convention. Sanford Ungar also finds an air of the unnatural at the Republican convention, though produced by circumstances considerably different from those at Atlantic City. Ungar notes the dilemma that Goldwater's nomination poses for liberal Republican candidates and analyzes the various pressures which must shape a politician's decision to support or repudiate the national ticket...
...there is also a terrific lot of boobs, about whom I must warn you. (The Admissions Committee, you know; and with all this scholarship money, there doesn't seem to be any end to it.) They are so frightfully earnest (I detest the word "wonkish," don't you?), and they simply insist upon taking over everything. Hardly a thing remains in Good Hands, you know...
Inevitably, some of September's is sues would wilt away before Election Day. Just as inevitably, others would sprout in full forensic flower. But last week, as what promises to be an extraordinary campaign began in earnest, perhaps the most extraordinary political fact was that some of the hardiest quadrennial issues did not figure to be issues...
...bamboo," he and a dozen other youths began operating in the highlands, captured or stole 20 weapons. But then, Khanh says, the Viet Minh disarmed his group "because we were nationalists, not Communists.'' After this sobering experience, the young activist moved in the opposite direction, embarked in earnest on a military career at the French army academy at Dalat, where Paris trained Vietnamese officers to command France's native Indo-Chinese units...
...representatives of an organization forthrightly dedicated to whoopee in a good cause, the Shriners are pranksters by profession, obligation and tradition. Launched over a Manhattan lunch table in 1870 by 13 Masons determined to have more cheer than that earnest, philanthropic brotherhood provided for, the Order of the Shrine is no frivolous minor offshoot but the second highest level of all Masonry. Only 32nd-degree Masons or Knights Templar are eligible -though admittedly their degree can be attained, if a man puts his mind to study, in a matter of months. The Shriners' caste mark, worn proudly if sometimes...