Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some peace activists are dismayed that the draft does not flatly rule out all use of nuclear weapons. They also object to its assertion that it is "marginally justifiable" to possess nuclear weapons in a "deterrence" policy, so long as disarmament talks are proceeding in earnest. But both points essentially reflect positions that Pope John Paul took in a statement to the United Nations last month. Remarked one source closely acquainted with the project: "It is unlikely that the U.S. bishops will be inclined to go further than the Holy Father." What other revisions the bishops as a whole...
...this nonsense as if neither one of them had ever seen an old-fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel
...became, instead, an editor and contributor for the Dial, an important literary and political journal of the interwar period, and married a fellow staff member, the independent-minded Sophia Wittenberg of Brooklyn. (Sixty years later, he still offers sonnets to her.) Mumford took up the study of cities in earnest after a stint at a municipal job in Pittsburgh. A 1929 book on Herman Melville established him as a literary critic, and his 1938 The Culture of Cities made him a national celebrity...
...celebrant of sunlight, of manicured suburban lawns and shaved ice swimming in gin. Not all of his fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying in bed, you draw on your cigarette and the red glow lights an arm, a breast, and a thigh around which the world seems to revolve. These images are like...
...R.S.C. makes its debut with Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, performed on successive evenings or, on matinee days, in a single afternoon and evening. The opening productions are stolid, earnest and distinctly uninspired. The occasion totally lacks the incandescent flow that made the company's Nicholas Nickleby a unique theatrical experience. In tone Part 1 has a springtime mood, life blooming to be grasped; Part 2 is autumnal, life slipping away beyond one's grasp...