Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of Labrador iron ore alone, Western strategists shudder to think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...
...realistic. Son Nels (Dick Van Patten), pushed too hard by family pride, is shown cheating in an exam for grades to impress his parents. Mama herself, expertly played by Actress Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over an old sweetheart...
...take advantage of a cheap, plentiful source of story material: the radio serial. Stemming from Johnny Madero, a defunct network radio program about a private eye, each film uses a "bridge" to link the action of two complete half-hour shows. When TV begins snapping up Hollywood films in earnest, Lippert will simply burn his "bridges" and sell half-hour shorts. Meanwhile, his own distributing company will sell the movies to theaters-including 62 owned or operated by Lippert himself...
Lippold was moved to give an earnest explanation of his brainchild: "The center of this construction is actually designed around a sphere. The 'transparency' of the sphere gives opportunity to visualize such inner tensions as activate all aspects of earthly life: personal, social and international. Out of these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk...
...novel has her "life's blood" in it (TIME, Jan. 29), the news calls for a certain amount of pricking up of ears. With the publication of The Whole Armor, ears can be at ease. Like the 60-odd Baldwin novels that have preceded it, this earnest story of a young Manhattan minister's search for maturity has a pretty thin hemoglobin content...