Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Freshman Seminar Program was announced two years ago a concerted effort to improve the freshman year was launched. It continued last spring with an earnest search for a way to ease the transition from secondary-school milieux to the College. By recognizing now the freshman's ability to discipline himself through reading period, the Faculty has staked a bet on his maturity...
...AMONG earnest car shoppers in many cities and towns throughout the U.S. last week were TIME correspondents, doing first-hand research on the battle of wits between salesman and buyer for this week's cover story on Ford Dealer Jim Moran (see BUSINESS). Researcher Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without...
...spontaneous. The whole film has the luminous intensity of a thing - say an in candescent filament or a well-loved child - into which strong energies have been poured. Again and again the line between acting and living is erased. Caught in the ecstasy of collective creation, a handful of earnest amateurs have almost accidentally produced a flawed but significant piece of folk...
...possibility of breaking the stalemate began to emerge. With the detonation of an atom bomb in 1949, and of an H-bomb in 1954, Soviet military men began to feel secure of a position of relative strength that would allow the diplomats to start negotiating in earnest. The death of Stalin in 1953 reduced the influence of the army and the hard-core ideologues, and brought in a new generation of leaders who were more sensitive to the dangers and to the economic costs of the arms race...
...Glad I Did It." Graham does not take formal possession of Newsweek until next week, but his weight was felt even before the ink on his earnest check had dried. In as new editor went Managing Editor Osborn Elliott. 36. a 1944 Harvard graduate and former TIME writer, to replace John Denson, who resigned last month to become editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Aging Board Chairman Muir was politely shifted to a resounding but inactive new post as chairman of the executive committee of the board. Malcolm Muir Jr., 45. once heir apparent to his father...