Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the week, Big Daddy mixed with the Yalemen, astonishing them with his skill and speed at pingpong, delicately holding teacups in his huge hands, impressing earnest undergraduates by throwing around such terms as "technocratic populist" and "social pluralism." When wit was required, he had it. Why does California have such extremes of right and left in its politics? "We have such a lush climate that both fruits and nuts flourish." What would he have done if he had been Nixon's campaign manager? "Cut my throat." Did he have any advice to the Yaleman who wants...
...Careful Caretaker. Amexco is conservative with the Float, invests it chiefly in government bonds and tax-free municipals. "We take good care of other people's money," says Clark, an earnest lawyer and C.P.A., who became president of Amexco three years...
Inventor Read stoutly asserts that "earnest practice for a single week enables one to write with assurance if not with speed." But Read, now 74, took more than 15 years to work the alphabet out, with the help of some correspondence with Shaw before the old man died. In the new book's last note, Read closes with a good old-fashioned "good luck!" If he had really the courage of his convictions, he would simply have said...
...also produced a question from a puzzled plodder at last summer's Edinburgh Writers' Conference. "Are you serious?'' the earnest fellow asked...
...items, the number of art works that could be seen in the course of a New York season would be anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000. Even if there were only the top galleries and the handful of others that, while uneven in performance, are still honest and earnest, a person would be hard put to see Manhattan's biggest, splashiest, dottiest, noblest and most beautiful show in its entirety...