Word: earnestly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MASTERS HAVE a difficult task--coordinating the social and academic lives of up to 450 students at the College. They are a hard-working and earnest group, generally dedicated to their House and its students. But in allocating House funds, masters have broad discretion, and most work in too much isolation from students...
...ironies, that Salisbury is overlooking. Not that he has stacked the deck--on the contrary, he is clearly trying to confront the most troublesome parts of his American experience: he seeks out Hunter Thompson, Tom Hayden, black people and bitter taxi drivers, all symbols of something hostile to his earnest mediocre, and it is not equal to the landscape he wants to describe...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's marvelously farcical parody of Victorian love. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., in Copley Square, through March 28. Performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
...President used the power of his office to take attention away from Ronald Reagan, his Republican rival, and from a crowded field of Democratic candidates. Ford used the State of the Union address and the budget message not only to lay out his programs but to launch in earnest his campaign for election in November...
Ferocious Volume. After reading several such displays of spite, one might ask why Simenon completed and published this exercise. Part of the book is an earnest, if unsuccessful, effort to find forgiveness in understanding. Henriette was the 13th of 13 children; her father lost what money he had when she was five. Simenon's father died young, and getting by was not easy. In his only long novel, Pedigree, Simenon has written about his childhood in Liège; Henriette appears as Elise, a hardworking, humorless, almost avaricious woman. She eventually remarried a man who had what she always...