Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME portraits, including some notable photographs that went on display last week recalled the era since World War II. From the '50s there were such memorable figures as Frank Sinatra (Aug. 29, 1955), gangling and youthful in his prime as the hottest entertainer in show business; an earnest Adlai Stevenson (July 16, 1956), struggling in vain a second time to reach the presidency; and Martin Luther King (Feb. 18, 1957), then, at 28, a minister just beginning to lead the fight for civil rights...
...essence of Nixon existed those days on television, the medium that after first failure he learned to manipulate so well. He used it in a way no president has matched, "taking his case to the American people" with an earnest, dogged persistence and Jack Webb-like reliance on purported facts that Jimmy Carter can only suggest. Whether it was an economic program, a war policy, or a foreign affairs development that led the news, Nixon could be counted on to hit the living rooms of Peoria himself, thus skirting the biased, liberal, effete snobs of the eastern Establishment press...
After the returns were in and the left had lost, the accusations began to fly in earnest, and not merely over how the party had blown the election. Critics were angrier still over the autocratic attitude of their leaders at a time when the winds of democratic expression and dissent were blowing through the more liberal and independent Communist parties in Italy and Spain. When a party stalwart at one cell meeting in Paris started to pin the election disaster on the Socialists, a disbelieving listener suddenly rose to declare: "It is scandalous that comrades cannot express themselves here." That...
...pick a date when the 1960s began in earnest, it might well be Feb. 9, 1964. On that Sunday night, a goofy-looking rock group from working-class Liverpool burst into the American consciousness from the stage of TV's Ed Sullivan Show. For anyone who was young then−and many who were not−life palpably shifted gears. The Beatles quickly changed the face of popular culture: they soon helped transform fashions in everything from dress and manners to politics and sexuality. Certainly the upheavals of the '60s would have occurred without the Beatles...
...Finally, earnest Richard Thomas is badly miscast, since his salient quality is intelligence. You just cannot accept John Boy of The Waltons as a media-maddened lunatic. Just by being himself, he further forces Director Bridges, with his flat, unaccented style, from the only possible attitude one could take to this story, which is comic, or at least profoundly ironic...