Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Importance of Being Earnest...
Last weekend, the Leverett House Arts Society presented a very sane, sophisticated interpretation of The Importance of Being Earnest, which managed to capture much of the relentless charm and wit of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece...
...efforts aren't driven by some ephemeral obsession with self-glorification of ethnic pride. Our efforts come from the frustration of not seeing any brown faces lecturing in our class-rooms and from the earnest belief that Latino faculty can contribute a great deal to this campus...
...paradox creeps through literary history like a specter: Edgar Allen Poe and Earnest Hemingway killed themselves. Jack Keroauc drank himself to death. My case is not so extreme, either in talent or depression. But the urge to write, and the emotions that fuel good writing, stem from a deep sensitivity to the world outside. A writer's conscience is like skin so sensitive that the air hurts. You've got to dance with the dark side, my brother always tells...
...only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived," Wright declared to a friend in the 1930s, "but the greatest architect who will ever live." Faced with such hubris, Secrest is ever the earnest apologist. "Few people," she writes about a similar outburst, "realized how compensatory those comments actually were." But if anyone should be excused his megalomania, it was Frank Lloyd Wright. He created dozens of masterworks, and his influence on a century of architecture is unequalled. Low-slung suburban houses, cathedral ceilings, wide-open interiors, the blurring of the indoor-outdoor distinction, office...