Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christopher Flanders, "Angel of Death" and freeloading mystic, sheds no greater spiritual light than he did the first time. Chris represents goodness conceived of negatively as the absence of evil. As Tab Hunter plays him, he is the saint as camp counselor, an earnest, bearded, good-deed-a-day man, but scarcely a religious knight shielding the weak from the fierce dominion of death...
...people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks to save the nation and its soul, not just the Negro...
...fanfare, writes Dunne, Wells once met the "taciturn, cynical Lenin with his yellow skin drawn like parchment over his high cheekbones, his little restless eyes, his great bald head looking as if it might have been hewn out of yellow pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When the interview ended and our hero strutted out, Lenin gave one of his arid chuckles and said to Trotsky: 'Ah, the little bourgeois...
...forum adjourned, a large group crowded around him and Goodman, smiling and earnest, suggested he and they go off somewhere and talk. As a lecturer Goodman is magnetic; sitting on the floor in a circle of twenty adulatory college students he is nearly irresistible. Within a half hour he was calling students by name; his voice, which had been familiar and accented over the mike in Burr B, here assumed the mellow intimacy of an all-night disc jockey. With the students in the living room, he was at home, scratching his head, wrinkling his brow, perpetually relighting his pipe...
...vastly successful automaker (1962 sales: $900 million). Though the decision to build the 600 had been made earlier, Hitzinger sped it along in the belief that the company should resume its prewar practice of producing an "ultraprestige" auto for nobles and moguls. Production will not begin in earnest until next summer, but Daimler-Benz already has orders for more than...