Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing end of nationalization." A year ago Big Jim warned: "The loyalty of the railwaymen should not be taken as weakness or complacency. Their patience...
...their play classed as much more than a well-contrived nothing. They set up the double premise that one's destiny is inescapable, regardless of what steps are taken to change it, and that it is possible to see the future in a crystal-ball. Both points are in earnest, since Samarkand is not, strictly, a comedy. Having placed the scene in a circus tent, the authors call on some deft maneuvering by designer Ben Edwards to shift the setting, on a momentarily darkened stage, so that everyone can watch the future...
...Wilde's works, the comedies stand up best (The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance). It is still impossible not to smile when Wilde seizes upon some normally dismal aspect of human relations and translates it faithfully and accurately into the language of comedy. It is this most-human humor that is Wilde's greatest gift to English literature. Much as he loved to pretend that he was too detached an artist to have "sympathies," every word he wrote shows that he was much too softhearted (and not really intelligent enough) to possess the large...
...Russian zone, my People's Policeman conducted me unceremoniously to the police station. There I was put through a minor third-degree. After about an hour, I was taken to a barracks on the edge of a park. There the questioning began in earnest. How many American soldiers are there in Italy? Did I come from a rich family? Who paid for my studies and travel in Europe? What about the Nazis in South America? What about Guatemala? What do the people in West Berlin think of the Volkspolizei...
...early January, the authorities said, because the two weeks of classes which now divide Christmas vacation and midyears are an academically representative period. Since Yale has no needing period, students tend to ignore their classes during these weeks and to wait for the actual exam period before studying in earnest...