Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the hand-wringing analysis overlooked a small but telling example of how far some blacks have come during the past four decades: the case of Joseph Jett...
...years, Radcliffe has been a mystery institution that periodically issued a report on its own status, a cryptic "R" in the abbreviated name of some student group. Suddenly this year, students woke from their blissful ignorance and entered a debate over whether this nonentity should continue to non-exist. Earnest pieces on Radcliffe began to clutter the 10,000 magazines of Harvard. The Radcliffe fracas even won the ultimate mark of legitimacy, an Istitute of Politics debate in its honor...
...almost comical then, watching the earnest reformers go to work, tinkering as they do with bylaws and referenda, yet without that most vital and curative of all elements, public interest--it's like without wheels. There can be no serious reform until council issues pass the most fundamental of all tests--the "do-I-care" test...
...summer of 1960, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had 29 members, a grant of $10,000 from Detroit's United Automobile Workers Union and an earnest commitment to social change...
...difficult metamorphosis began in earnest last week when the Israelis completed their withdrawal from two enclaves of Palestinian self-rule, one surrounding Jericho in the West Bank, the other covering most of the Gaza Strip. In both areas, civilian affairs were turned over to P.L.O. control, as was public order and safety. To replace the occupying forces, some 3,000 Palestinian troops, arriving from exile mostly in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, were put to work as soldiers and policemen -- a force that is to eventually grow...