Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gift he had was that of lucid speech, clear prose, and serious reflection. In an age that has made "communication" its shibboleth if not its romantic illusion, Robert McCloskey quietly expressed the best of the scholarly tradition, both in his clarity of thought and in his commitment to serious learning...
...invited his state and, in effect, the nation, to participate in his decision, Kennedy made the choice quite privately. Then, instead of holding a briefing or press conference, he had the announcement mimeographed in his Boston office. Some skeptics doubted that resignation had ever been a real and serious consideration in Senator Kennedy's mind...
...first party problem posed by his eclipse is what one Republican leader calls a "glamour vacuum." Another, potentially more serious threat is that Kennedy's removal from presidential politics -at least for now-could encourage the party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This could take the form of either a McCarthy-like revolt within the party or an effort to form a new party. At the same time, the prospects of other possible candidates are in flux: ∙HUBERT HUMPHREY. Now that Eugene McCarthy has renounced ambition for another Senate term, Humphrey will almost...
...judgments on recent social and intellectual history surprising. I don't think it is because she ever resorts to the hackneyed or the cliched. Rather, we, like Martha, have become supremely conscious of events around us. It is the price one pays for attending all those ever-so-serious "rap sessions." And so Mrs. Lessing can be enthusiastically read for the confirmation she often gives to one's own opinions as well as for the general clarity with which she treats those few areas in which our opinions might not yet be formed...
...Nothing is left unchanged. Neurotic, studious looking Radcliffe girls with round, horn-rimmed glasses are replaced by 4-H Club cheerleaders from Miame U., and the all too serious self-involved Harvard student gives way to tackles and student body presidents from the Big Ten Colleges. Even the Revolution takes a break," writes Steve Lerner (Harvard '68), the author of the article...