Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First the murdered President became saint and martyr. But then the '60s arrived in earnest. In a study of tragedy, Critic George Steiner wrote, "The fall of great personages from high places (casus virorum illustrium) gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character." The real '60s began on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, and they turned festive and brutal too. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. His assassination became the prototype in a series of public murders: Malcolm...
...preference for the electronic media at the expense of an essential, if costly, grass-roots organization. Says he: "A lot of it had to do with my inability to persuade Bill White to make the necessary investment to build a field campaign." The two men began feuding in earnest last month, when White decided to close the California staff office and cut back funds in Wisconsin...
Wealthier students can ride this tide with the upwardly mobile; others may find it harder to keep apace as the Square begins to flirt in earnest with chi-chi consumerism. I hear there's still an army surplus store at Central Square where, coincidentally, you can also find the proletariat fast food Cambridge opposes. At least at McDonald's two dollars can buy you dinner, not just a sugar rush...
...impression was one of smooth ness, earnest professionalism, clarity of purpose. Would that U.S. foreign policy were nearly so confident and focused. In fact, the politicking that led to McFarlane's appointment made it clear that the officials who shape foreign policy are divided by chronic personal and ideological disputes. Those rifts have reappeared, diverting the principals' energies at a particularly volatile, complicated moment for U.S. interests abroad. Lebanon is threatening to explode again in the wake of the devastating attack on U.S. Marines. Combat is also intensifying in Central America, drawing the U.S. more deeply into local...
...Marines were dispatched to "keep the peace" in Lebanon is appalling. That the U.S. Congress sanctioned their presence under the War Powers Act is even more appalling. There is no peace to keep in Lebanon; war has been the status quo in Lebanese politics for over a decade. However earnest the Marines in their desire to bring peace and democracy to this pitiful, war-torn country, their presence can not change the sectional hatred and hostility that has fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will continue to bicker...