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Word: earnestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, abruptly, Luscomb's mood changes from the lazy sunny afternoon easiness to an earnest, groping-for-the-right-phrases intensity...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: So you want a revolution? | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

...Importance of Being Earnest, the great Wilde comedy, is also at the Charles St. Meetinghouse on July 8 and 9. Curtain at 8 p.m., tickets...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Stage | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by OSCAR WILDE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Frivolity's Finest Hour | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...name here been changed to Jennie, and their father's from Emil to Otto?), and Deborah Rush makes Dot into a squeaky-voiced ninny. Robert Sevra's singing voice is a bit too strained for the fickle-hearted Tom. As up-and-coming composer Sid, Doyle Newberry is fittingly earnest, but (like most real composers) he isn't much of a singer. Russ Beasley is stiff as Sam Herzig, a producer, but he looks like any producer's dream of a handsome, mustachioed matinee idol. And Carl Nicholas brings a welcome touch of the old country to the German-born...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Kern's 'Sweet Adeline' in Bright Revival | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...first day. From a temporary stage erected in the courtyard of the two-century-old College of Charleston, a crowd of 3,000 heard the Festival Brass Quintet begin with the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief new piece written for the occasion by Menotti, Fanfare for Charleston. Earnest speakers followed, talking of "commitment to excellence" and "art must be part of the equation." As the music resumed, the dignitaries marched off the platform, thoroughly distracting the audience from some 16th century music for brass. The next piece had been commissioned by the festival, but Composer Morgan Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Newest US. Immigrant: Spoleto | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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