Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dispatches reprints the reports that Herr sent home from the war, eyewitness accounts of combat that are even more scarifying in retrospect than they seemed at the time. But Herr blends these pieces with meditations on Viet Nam that began in earnest when his look at the shooting was over. For Herr came to realize that Viet Nam was the most intense experience life was ever likely to offer him. Hating the idea of becoming a combat freak, a reporter who needed a war somewhere in order to function, he also recognized the pain that he and fellow correspondents felt...
...point, in the spot, at centerstage: the Museum of Modern Art bought three paintings from that first show, an unheard-of gesture to an unknown painter, and the acquisitive frenzy and the search for bankable geniuses that would characterize the American art world in the '60s began in earnest...
...opened up the country to exploitation. Trade had long been carried out on the lower part of the river, including a lively traffic in slaves that the Portuguese continued after other European nations had abandoned the practice. But following Stanley's expedition, the rape of the Congo began in earnest...
Importance of Being Earnest...
Importance of Being Earnest-Charles...