Word: earnest
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Amid all the clamor, independent Challenger James Taylor's painfully earnest pleas for nuclear "sanity" are muffled. Taylor, 34, a former newspaper reporter who refuses all PAC campaign contributions, is so strapped for cash that his first campaign signs were hand-lettered. Though he may get some votes from Democrats repelled by Robinson's rowdiness, the race remains either Petty's or Robinson's to win. Impartial observers cautiously favor the sheriff, but Petty says bravely, "I'm running as if it were neck and neck...
That night Helms and James Hunt, 47, the Democrat who hopes to wrest away his seat, met in the second of four scheduled television debates. It was a battle of the Old South vs. the New. Hunt is North Carolina's popular, two-term Governor, an earnest, mild-mannered and moderate Democrat. He favors voluntary school prayer and a sustained military buildup, but supports civil rights and a woman's right to abortion. As Governor he has attracted $13 billion in new business investment, added 207,000 new jobs and raised educational standards through a series of reforms...
DiPrete launched his campaign in earnest last week when Anthony Solomon, state general treasurer, emerged from the primary as the Democratic nominee. Solomon won a clear 16-point victory over his opponent Joseph Walsh, the mayor of Warwick, R.I., but only after the two men had spent nearly $1 million each, most of which went to increasingly mean-spirited TV and radio ads. Solomon, who tagged himself "the independent Democrat," labeled his opponent the "machine" politician. Walsh last year wrested control of the state Democratic committee from the four-term incumbent Governor J. Joseph Garrahy, who later chose to retire...
...picture is not entirely bleak. The new season has received an early boost from an unlikely summer hit. Helped by massive promotion during the Olympics, ABC's Call to Glory, an earnest drama about an Air Force family in the early 1960s starring Craig T. Nelson, drew good enough ratings after its mid-August premiere to land a spot on the fall schedule. Its patriotic appeal has won the approval of President Reagan, but the show appears to have more complex ambitions: on one recent episode, the family got involved in a local battle over racial discrimination. Call...
Like many Americans, Reagan has a religious sense that lacks much formal institutional grounding, but nonetheless seems earnest and powerful. Mondale, the pious and principled son of a Methodist pastor, has a temperamental aversion to wearing his faith on his sleeve-but he apparently feels his faith deeply and knows what he believes. What is at issue, or should be, is neither the sincerity nor the righteousness of the two men's beliefs. Rather, the point is their basic difference in outlook, reflected within the electorate, over the proper role of religion in the political realm. If conducted...