Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting in earnest, soon got his own chamber orchestra and began winning critical cheers. Vandernoot is as famed for his girl friends as he is for his fortissimos. Says he: "I have given up my wife, my two" mistresses and my fiancee to devote myself to love...
...vote no, cried Charles de Gaulle, "refuse to have the problem of Algeria ever resolved by France. To abstain is to choose impotence for France." But to vote yes "is to want France to win in Algeria, for Algeria, with Algeria, in the cause of peace and reason." His earnest personal appeal last week went out over nationwide radio and TV: "Men of France, it is to me you are going to give your answer. I need-yes, I need-to know what is in your hearts and minds. In truth-who is not aware of it?-the matter...
...Office of Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest but tactless term as Governor of Connecticut (1949-51), he was defeated for reelection, got a Truman appointment as Ambassador to India...
...irreverently, Montreal Poet F. R. Scott epitomized a nagging Canadian obsession: how to preserve a distinctive Canadian cultural identity alongside the powerful influence of U.S. television, books and magazines. Last week, in deadly earnest, a three-man Royal Commission on Publications-Canada's equivalent of a U.S. congressional investigation-was sounding the same theme. But along with its concern for Canadian culture, the commission had an unconcealed economic spur: a demand by the Canadian magazine industry for government protection from U.S. competition...
...Examiner's shadow, the Chronicle moseyed along as an earnest but unexciting paper so out-of-touch with local currents that it once sent its science editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders and a man convinced that "international news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall...