Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thunder of Drums (M-G-M), the best western released so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like-a hideously silent war of wits with a subtle, cruel enemy who was seldom seen until it was too late...
...Privileges. Belatedly, the whites conceded that Mau Mau had only begun in earnest after Kenyatta's jailing, not before. By early this year, Sir Patrick was saying, "It is arguable that the economy is likely to be more damaged by the uncertainty of [Kenyatta's] continued restriction.'' Finally, as the British realized that there could be no stable government in Kenya without black leadership, and that there could be no black leadership without Jomo Kenyatta, his release became inevitable. To reassure panicky whites, Kenyatta now says that they may keep their farms even after independence...
...seemed to many that he had invented the idea. God guided Frank Buchman to seek out the company of the rich and famous-an improbable prophet, ovoid and owlish, with a piping voice and a slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world, he gathered testimonials-sometimes heartfelt, sometimes diplomatically polite-from kings, labor leaders. Oriental...
...TALES OF OSCAR WILDE (illustrations by Charles Mozley; Watts; $4.95) are timeless parables of good and evil for which no child can be too old and no adult too young. In the past, Wilde has often been reduced to the importance of reading and seeing The Importance of Being Earnest; now he is being rediscovered as a magical fabulist and as great a moralist as he was an immoralist. Wilde saw life as a fatality, and many of his fables end tragically. None can be summarized or quoted out of context, for they are mosaics into which Wilde...
...Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...