Word: earnestly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each other, but in Travesties, they do. Stoppard was further intrigued by a suit filed against Joyce by one Henry Carr for the price of a pair of trousers. A minor British consular official, Carr had purchased the trousers to play Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest for a Joyce-managed troupe called the English Players...
...every major Labour party figure, including the big union leaders, can agree on is that Labour must be kept in power at all costs. Crossman himself would have appreciated the strengths as well as weakness of being a Labour politician. When he first ran for office, in 1945, he earnestly campaigned in his constituency with loud-speaker and earnest desire to discuss the issues...
...which is well under way. The second part is just beginning to come under discussion but may eventually be more significant. The first part of the program is an attack on managerial prerogatives, symbolized by Paragraph 32 in the rules of the employers federation. The campaign began in earnest in 1971, with the L.O. convention calling for greater workers' control over working conditions, planning and personnel policies. Since then a spate of new laws has come into effect...
...whom seemed receptive to more of Simon than just the easy-to-hit pitches he had thrown all afternoon. One almost wished for the Nixon-era "political hardball" operatives back again--their deviousness was at least straight-forwardly obnoxious. Simon, while just as completely wrong, is so earnest and ingratiating that he is even more dangerous to this country's economic well-being...
Although Aurora's polished dialogue is not without wit, she never sounds much better than the star of a road-company Importance of Being Earnest. As he has demonstrated in novels like The Last Picture Show, Author McMurtry feels most at home with Texas natives, and the odd characters who orbit around his highfalutin heroine regularly upstage her. In the book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter...