Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post Office, crowds clawed their way toward the telegram counter from 8 a.m. until the curfew at 8 p.m. Cable traffic quadrupled to 20,000 messages as the cries for help went out round the world. One man in West Virginia got a typical plea couched in garbled but earnest English: "Please send Red Cross to U.S. embassy in Saigon to help me process paper as a fianc?...
...call the Boston office of the People's Bicentennial Commission, you'll most likely hear one of those earnest, accent-free youngish voices you know you've heard somewhere before. It will belong to someone who has probably spent at least four years going to school after high school and could probably give Walter Cronkite a run for sounding like the doesn't really come from anywhere. But then the voice begins to sound familiar: "Sure...Salgon's about to fall. The anti-war movement is going domestic...
...Fuller as Prince Hilarion and Paul Seltzer and Paul Hewitt as Cyrill make an irresistably impish trio. Fuller proves once again his skill in portraying the standard G. and S. straight man--sweetly and stupidly earnest--and Seltzer and Hewitt sharpen one another in their roles as comic foils...
...process begins in earnest Saturday morning when the couples are confronted with a list of "symptoms of spiritual divorce," including feelings of insecurity, quarrels, bad humor. They check which ones they believe are happening in their marriage and write their feelings about the worst. Another list, more hopeful, includes "areas for reaching out," such as sex, work, relatives. Again the husbands and wives write their comments. Through the day, reticence gradually recedes, and by nightfall the couples are primed for a presentation on Christ's presence at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2). Then, in a room dimly...
...impure and simple as her long, sinuous body-high fashion, but with some meat on her smoothly articulated bones -slithers into closeup, her navel twinkling as invitingly as her sequins. Then, however, a shy smile splits her deadpan. As she speaks a few words of earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice new kid in the secretarial pool or your home room when...