Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then difficulties begin in earnest. Although their children slip easily into the new, primitive surroundings, the parents find it hard to adjust to the "habitation of mud houses." Food is scarce, sanitation minimal, and disease threatens with every drink from the nearby river. They fear betrayal. July can apparently keep the members of his extended family quiet, but perhaps "he could not prevent other people, living scattered round about, who knew the look of every thornbush, from discovering there were thornbushes that overgrew a white man's car, and passing on that information to any black army patrol...
Putnam named Walter M. Cabot '55 president of HMC in February 1974, and Cabot soon began interviewing more than 100 interested firms to fill the outside manager postions. He selected five of them that year and commented. "It is my earnest hope that the partnership approach of a close professional relationship will produce better long-term investment results for the entire endowment than the common practice of having separately managed pools with little interrelation with one another or with the group as a whole. At Harvard, we are stressing cooperation rather than competition among managers to produce the best overall...
...much inclined to author legislation, Rostenkowski over the years has built a reputation on the Hill as likable, earnest, cautious,and absolutely trustworthy. Among the show horses of Congress, he is a workhorse. Rostenkowski was close to his goal of becoming Speaker when the 1968 Democratic Convention intervened. Lyndon Johnson, watching the convention slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination...
...Saturday Night Live, then the theatrical features Real Life (1979) and Modern Romance, now in release. In his films he is not the Tonight Show Albert Brooks, putting bozo entertainers through a Cuisinart of irony; he is Albert Brooks dicing and slicing the comedy commodity named "Albert Brooks" - an earnest obsessive just this side of obnoxious. By comparison Woody Allen plays it safe: despite the misogyny and paranoid fatalism, his comic persona is essentially lovable. Brooks plays hardball, with himself as the wall. On S.N.L. he played a comedian preparing to perform heart surgery on a patient who has answered...
...young dancers (more all the time) are being pushed hard. It is a new direction for a company used to a seniority system. Baryshnikov is almost grimly earnest about his reasons for starting fresh. Says he: "In the corps I try to measure the span of inspiration and dedication. I am angry at dancers who give just what is in the contract. They are not part of the theater, not attuned to its spirit. I look into their eyes, and there is nothing there. I like to perform and share-100%, that's my standard. Give to the choreographer...