Word: earnestly
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...pinpoint a clear star of the show. The vocalists were by no accounts extraordinary, but their performances displayed obvious musical talent. Patrick W. Hosfield ’05, in the title character Candide, looked the part. With a suave red sweater and cheeks of the same color, an earnest gaze and gentle gait, Hosfield adeptly assumes the character of Candide. Even more impressive is the acting range that Hosfield displays, deftly switching between naively optimistic and violently belligerent expressions. In a number of sad solos and in one great temper tantrum, Hosfield plays his part with an unnaturally wide emotional...
...eating the last piece of pizza at the IOP open house, I looked around at the crowd. These are good people, I thought. They seem happy, they like each other, they’re passionate about what they do, and at least 90 percent of them seem almost too earnest in their desire to change the world for the better. Some of these people are my best friends. Why can’t I differentiate my criticism of the Institute from a criticism of them...
These people then, these preppy white kids, were a part of the problem. But they seem so nice, I thought. Why was I having such a hard time reconciling what they represented to me with what they really were: earnest, idealistic, hard-working...
...Iraq, of course, is where the problem began in earnest, even before the war. By pressing ahead to war two years ago without the evidence to back its case and without waiting for UN inspectors to complete their work, the Bush administration inadvertently created a rupture in the international system of alliances that has proved disastrous. It created a situation where longtime U.S. allies found themselves with no choice but to say no to Washington on a strategic priority - and then not only to face no negative consequences, but to see the U.S. struggle under the weight of its occupation...
America's Army, in which the military has invested $16 million, is the brainchild of Colonel Casey Wardynski, director of the Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis. "In 1999 the Army had had two bad years of recruiting," Wardynski explains. The Army's square, earnest message of honor and patriotic duty wasn't connecting with the next generation of potential soldiers. "This was a solution to the problem." The military has a long history of playing around with war games for their educational benefits, but America's Army was a different animal altogether. The game is also...