Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From makeshift booths where travelers could pick up whisky or cigarettes, duty-free shops at international airports have blossomed within a few years into bazaars of the jet age. Bargain-hunting is now one of the expected rewards of a flight abroad, and as the travel season begins in earnest with the coming of June, it will be the source of rich business for airport authorities, who usually lease the shops to private entrepreneurs. The goods that they offer are as varied as diamonds at Amsterdam's Schiphol, fur hats ($10 to $75) at Moscow's Sheremetyevo...
Liberals, of course, expect that they will often fail, but also expect that their earnest efforts will be properly appreciated. They cheerfully acknowledge that people disagree with them but cannot believe that they are being laughed at. If Kunen's Srawberry Statement encourages a few liberals to reexamine their reflexive rhetoric, to wonder if they are thinking in terms as large as are the radicals they feel threatened by, then the book will in the end be good for some education, as well as some amusement...
Cheers from Patients. Five years ago, Bialoguski moved to England, set up a practice in the London suburb of Epsom and launched his musical quest in earnest. The Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music both rejected him as too old to enroll in conducting courses, so he practiced with amateur orchestras around London. When he approached Sir Adrian Boult, the doyen of British conductors, Boult offered to become his patient if he would stick to medicine. Instead, Bialoguski took a master class in conducting with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy. Eventually, Boult let Bialoguski rehearse the New Philharmonia...
...Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from a police bus." Whimsically, he records his dutiful trip to Washington in June "for the rich people's march in support of the Poor People's Campaign...
...generational revolt. According to the formula, students act autonomously first and then seek for identification. The takeover of University Hall, for example, kicked off a campaign to identify exploited Harvard students with exploited Cambridge workers. Perhaps there is an identity. Significantly, though, the campaign against expansion began in earnest after the takeover...