Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vinyl age that has produced such a blossoming has as its sole historians Cataloguer William Schwann and his three assistants. The earnest list makers also publish a monthly catalogue of recorded music; most issues contain about 500 new releases, and record buyers feel understandably anachronistic if they own anything older than last month's book. But the nature and scope of the revolution in musical taste are best seen in the Artist Issue, which Schwann first published in 1953 and has put out five times since. It is a revolution of expanded taste as much as refined taste...
...stories that U.S. reporters are ' called upon to cover are as fascinating, as exhausting, as much fun -and as important-as presidential politics. Last week, as the 1964 presidential season opened in earnest, TIME reporters fanned out across the country following candidates and prospective candidates, quizzing professional politicians and talking to just plain voters. They found that 17 months before the next presidential election, the country is unusually involved in the game of candidate watching...
...folowed by a nondescript procession of lefties, all of them as earnest and inept as the starter. Together they were charged with 14 runs, 12 hits, and six walks. Egloff, the beginner in the series, was also the loser...
...White House, there was an air of frustrated urgency. President Kennedy and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy are both earnest workers for civil rights. But they are also acutely aware of the political problems that confront them in the Negro revolution: the Administration badly needs Southern congressional votes for its legislative program this year; moreover, there is always the white Southern vote to consider in next year's elections...
This year the British decided to go after the Walker Cup in earnest. They scheduled the matches for Ailsa, a 7,025-yd. course at Turnberry, Scotland, whose massive bunkers and cement-hard greens were sure to give U.S. golfers fits. Then they picked a team of strong young amateurs who could match the long-hitting Americans drive for drive. And, finally, they prayed for rain...