Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...
...structure of Europe changed last week. In a historic five days, the West's statesmen moved farther and faster than they had in the past two years of frustration and acrimony. West Germany began the week technically still occupied and emerged a proud new sovereign nation. As an earnest of their trust in the new Germany of Konrad Adenauer, the NATO powers welcomed Germany as an equal among equals, and entrusted it with an army which should prove the most formidable component of free Europe's defense...
...under the pressure of an aroused clergy, French churches are being stripped of such junk, and the St.-Sulpice stores are desperately looking for better wares. To help fill the gap, an earnest group of young painters and sculptors was staging a "Salon of Sacred Art" in Paris last week...
...paintings makes most people nervous. For everyone lucky or unlucky enough to "fall in love" with a picture on sight, there are ten who know what they like but not what they would like to live with. The majority of art shoppers are apt to ask two dead-earnest questions which make dealers squirm: 1) "Do you think this picture will go with my other furnishings?" and 2) "Will my friends approve...
...signal to start work in earnest was given by the French National Assembly, which agreed by a surprising 3 to 1 to the principle of rearming West Germany. Though not France's final fiat, the Assembly vote gave the West fair hope that by next spring the first West German soldiers will march into the NATO defense line...