Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was a time when The New York Times had an annual tradition of printing a picture of the main reading room in New York's 42nd street library the day after Christmas. The room was always filled with earnest young college students studying for final exams. The Times' tradition no longer exists, but if it did, the majority of the sorry people studying in the middle of their winter vacations would be Harvard students. That is because most other schools have changed their schedule, starting the fall semester earlier and ending before vacation...
...growing smorgasbord of upstart religious movements ranges from earnest, even plausible, efforts at finding a new creed for a new era to theologies that could be described as, um, eccentric. In the latter group is, for example, the Aquarian Concepts Community Divine New Order Government. On its Website you can learn about "Interuniversal Genetics," enroll in the "Starseed Schools of Melchizedek" and perhaps arrange a "personal transmission" with "Gabriel of Sedona." Gabriel, by the way, carries the endorsement of the "head administrator of our universe" (the two of them "fuse" once a month) and, moreover, is "the only morontia counselor/soul...
...himself as "a complete outsider" but was soon challenged by Eli W. Bolotin '98, who apparently wanted the title as well. (Bolotin also made the unfortunate mistake, at least in these quarters, of referring to The Crimson as a perhaps unreliable source.) Justin E. Porter '99 came across as earnest, if incredibly idealistic, in his desire to "roll up our sleeves and go into the dean's office" to work together and create world peace...
...while Mr. Myles is hardpressed to give tailback Eion Hu's number (33), he will tell you with the most earnest of looks that Harvard saved his life...
...network providing a public service? It might be, if the actors were not so goofily earnest in their delivery that real concentration on what they say is almost impossible. Is E!, on the other hand, affording viewers easy laughs? Certainly. Each day the fake O.J. (Stephen Eskridge; likeness: excellent) seems to get better at fiddling with his pencil and gazing intensely at the goings-on. When the faux Los Angeles Police Department criminologist Collin Yamauchi (Charlie Minn) said "phenylethylene test," it seemed funnier than any bit on Mad TV. Who needs cameras in the courtroom...