Word: seriousness
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...many ways, Haynsworth is the stereotype of a courtly Southern judge. He combs his gray hair nearly straight back, with just a slant to the right, and carries himself with an almost fastidious precision. He is, as one former law clerk describes him, "a quiet, serious, somewhat shy man who displays a good sense of humor once you know him." This trait emerges occasionally in mild, improbable pranks, as when his neighbors recently bought a new lawnmower. Haynsworth showed up with a beribboned bottle of Fresca to christen the new machine...
Such a view naturally enrages serious accordion players who, in the 140 years or so since the accordion was invented, have pursued their craft with a pure if lonely devotion...
Much of what went on at the competition was like the history of the accordion itself-inconclusive and tinged with melancholy. But the serious contestants vindicated the proceedings with disciplined and evocative efforts on behalf of composers ranging from Bach to Hans Brehme. The winner was a Russian, Valeri Petrov. His two runners-up: Fellow Countryman Anatole Senin, who alternately coaxed from his instrument both the organlike richness and wintry delicacy necessary for Bach's organ Concerto in A-Minor, and American Pam Barker, who survived the technical terrors of Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto with impressive calm...
Obstacle Course. Yablonski, 59, himself a member of the 140,000-member union's ruling elite, is the first serious challenger for the U.M.W. leadership since the late John L. Lewis turned back Insurgent John Brophy's bid in 1926. The raspy-voiced Pennsylvanian has served on the union's international executive board for 27 years. Earlier this year, Boyle named him acting director of the "NonPartisan League,"; the union's powerful political arm. Yablonski's announcement of his candidacy last May cost him that...
Risky Action. Kaunda's action entails serious risks for his country. Zambia has neither the capital nor the skills to run the mines by itself. Kaunda must rely heavily on both the companies and their remaining 5,000 white miners to keep operations going. Only the steadily rising price of copper, now at a high of 740 per pound, has enabled Zambia to maintain a favorable balance of payments in recent years. Any decline in copper prices as a result of an end of the war in Viet Nam, the discovery of new sources, or the increased...