Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a play, your praise carries the reader with you. If you don't like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful evenings I ever had in the theater were at the English production of The Importance of Being Earnest and a revival of Pal Joey. Both times I had a 102° fever, all of which proves that if something is good, it has nothing to do with how the critic feels." What disturbs Kronenberger about Broadway today is that it "has become so dependent on adaptations as opposed...
...earnest, persuasive type, Actor Lancaster is assigned to prosecute the murder of a Puerto Rican member of the Horseman Gang by three hoods from the Italian Thunderbirds, one of whom makes animal noises, wears a cape and calls himself Batman. But the prosecutor's personal life keeps getting in the way. He seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that...
...little. Punching shoulders, mugging at clinkers and bouncing all the while, they work like piano movers to match their father's ease, the height of which is to move the fingers in a finger-snapping motion without actually snapping the fingers. But their nonchalance is too earnest; the effect is chalance...
Throughout the following week, Phillips' foes began to work in earnest for a censure. By the next meeting, though, tempers had calmed, Phillips had tightened the joints of his machine, and the Council settled for an expression of "strong disapproval" of its President. Phillips escaped censure primarily because he had technically done no wrong. His Council told him, though, that it was tired of being known as an ultra-conservative group...
...they want," the Dunster move is "a danger signal," not a sign of hope. He said "there is no reason for other Houses to think about seceding, if the issue is left open," and that it would not "make any sense" to have two student councils. He was earnest in asking for serious and considered discussion of all plans for reorganization...