Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes to economy and economics, is a balding, moonfaced fellow with few of the outward trappings of power. Each day last week, he strode briskly on the three-minute journey from his office in the Executive Building to Lyndon Johnson's office, where he and the President held earnest conversations; Johnson also telephoned him from the presidential jet en route to Texas. At week's end, when Johnson announced a lower 1964 deficit and a greater budget cut than earlier estimates, there was, typically, no sign of the man who had done most of the work and made...
...Drafting Committee hopes to sit down in earnest Friday night. Its three principal writers are: Bryce Harlow, a former Eisenhower speechwriter; Malcolm Moos, another one-time Eisenhower speechwriter, who has been advising Scranton; Karl Hess, a former Washington newsman and one of Goldwater's key advisers. The drafting group will report to the full Platform Committee, hopefully on Saturday. If sharp disputes between Goldwater and moderates break out, Goldwater should be in excellent shape, since a hefty majority of the committee members favor his candidacy...
...McLuhan is not playing games. He is in humorless earnest. And if the book is taken seriously, it must be judged as fuzzy-minded, lacking in perspective, low in definition and data, redundant, and contemptuous of logical sequence-which is to say that McLuhan has perfectly illustrated the cool qualities he most values in communications. McLuhan's solemn pseudo science at work: "What do we know about the social or psychic energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure...
Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28, is everything a world champion auto racer ought to be: bright, cool, daring, earnest, fearless-and lucky as a field full of four-leaf clovers. Last week he won the 280-mile Belgian Grand Prix to make it two out of three races so far this year. And he didn't even realize what he was doing...
...Diversion. To show how things are, with nothing subtracted for propriety or added for spice, is the sole aim of naturalism, the earnest flat-footed literary school of which Farrell has been perhaps the most determinedly flat-footed U.S. member. His career, beginning with his wildly successful Studs Lonigan trilogy, has been ruled by the naturalistic writers' obsessive need to prove, over and over again, that life is not art. It is a lesson that occasionally needs teaching, and Farrell and such hesitant early experimenters as William Dean Howells cleared away a good deal of literary rubbish by writing...