Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supporting roles were far less demanding. The only actors with parts that varied enough to warrant individual comment were those who played both the four temptors in the first act and the murdering knights in the second. Robert Schwarz's straightforward earnestness as the temptor who offered Thomas the greatest gift of all--martyrdom--is skillfully handled, while Andre Gregory is delightfully whimsical as he offers Becket the joys of past dissipations. As the two temptors who offer various forms of temporal power, Louis Begley and John Docker are only fair. Begley over-acts to the point of appearing...
...prove them wrong. Before putting his Cabinet and his program to a vote of confidence, Scelba first anointed wounds in his own Christian Democratic Party. The violence of outside opposition to him seemed to strengthen support inside the party. He courteously consulted ruffled deputies. He dashed off an earnest public message to Party Leader Alcide de Gasperi: "On my taking office . . . my first affectionate, devout and admiring thought goes to you." He made a personal trip out the New Appian Way to a convent where resides frail Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged priest who founded the Christian Democrat Party...
...three characters in search of a parent, its use of knowledgeable servants and titled sinners, its display of highborn eccentricity, its going in for shameless interruptions at climactic moments, The Confidential Clerk is the glaringly legitimate offspring of Gilbert & Sullivan and Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Its tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath the surface lurk...
This does not stop the eagerness of the Wagner enthusiasts for more productions. "I am likely to get 100 or more earnest letters a year demanding more," says Bing. "But this doesn't seem to be Wagner's era at the box office...
...essential for a Dartmouth team victory in the Carnival to match the victories over the past two years, applause was awarded all good jumps, even by men of point threatening Now Hampshire. Politeness paid off, because the jump meet second place gave Dartmouth another Carnival victory, and the earnest celebrating was ready to start...