Word: earnestly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason is plain: Some of the farthest-out pilgrims of the struggle keep crossing over from the worthy to the frivolous, from the serious to the preposterous. Granted, the main thrust to assure fair play for all Americans goes on as plausibly as ever, its partisans earnest, their issues understandable, their purposes reasonable. Still, there must be some sensible bounds-no matter how elusive-to the claims that can be made in the name of nondiscrimination...
Based on Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel, it gives an earnest, intelligent account of Deborah Blake, a teen-ager who returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
...toughest kids manage to resist the most earnest efforts at rehabilitation. Robert Watts, a youth officer in Boston, describes a typical failure with...
NUCLEAR ENERGY-SAFER THAN SEX. That claim, emblazoned on T shirts, was one of the few light slogans on display in the streets of Manchester, N.H., last week. The otherwise earnest and orderly demonstration was the response of pronuclear forces to the 2,000 youthful environmentalists who last May staged a well-publicized occupation of the site designated for the long-delayed Seabrook nuclear power plant on the New Hampshire coast. More than half were arrested and held in custody, but the police had nothing to do but direct traffic when their opponents came to town. Pointedly minding their manners...
...Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar, Wilde's comedy, continues at the Charles St. Meetinghouse at 70 Charles St., Boston, on. Friday and Saturday, $2.50 donation (hah), curtain...