Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lectures by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, and Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor of Economics, on "Diverse Shapes of Men" and "Economic Perspective" are added attractions, while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will judge a barbershop quartet contest on the second...
...there was still an overall policy to be made. That policy had to be measured against the background of the nation's adventures in foreign affairs since the end of the war. One fact seemed to have emerged already: seldom in world history had there been such an earnest effort to plant peace and seldom had a policy been based on such a grave miscalculation...
Then he began to change. He saw a world shrinking under the mechanized wonders of the war. He was the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee and as such assumed a burden of responsibility; he held earnest conversations with Cordell Hull. Then came the unprecedented policy meeting of Republican leaders held in September 1943, at Mackinac Island, Mich. At that conference Vandenberg produced the word "participation," which expressed the determination of the great majority of Republican Party leaders to stay in world affairs after...
...mind. Passers-by do a double-take when they see him in animated conversation with such figures as Pound, Morize, or Copeland. During spare minutes he likes to scan his stock of magazines. Indeed, only an overriding sense of nationality, ranks in his makeup with this semiliterate but deadly earnest intellectual streak. A leader in Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest...
...murder." War, he tells the court which condemns him, is merely a grandiose multiplication of the crime he is dying for. But wholesale murder is condoned by the state. "Numbers . . ." (of killed men), he tells the fat-mouthed journalist who interviews him in his death cell, "numbers sanctify." An earnest priest, his last offices rejected, murmurs solemnly, "May God have mercy on your soul." "Why not?" replies M. Verdoux. "After all, it belongs to Him"-and walks out to be guillotined, away from the camera, down that straight road where most Chaplin movies...