Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That disillusioned me. I became wary of student movements where people are too young to make serious commitments. We made promises to people that we didn't keep. I never wanted to be involved with that type of thing again," he says...
...Serious shit to be sure, but still it just seemed to happen, and that was the point...
...conditions were so unique; we were in the midst of an economic boom, America had a very strong position in the world economically and we thought we could drop out, do our thing and then come back any time. I've decided that serious radicalism thrives best when liberalism is in power because liberalism makes promises which it can't always keep and then disillusionment follows...
...think of him as a serious figure," says Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Christopher T. Leland. "I think he has a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater. He opts for sparkling repartee rather than a serious and considered remark...
...Wolfe has experienced the serious and the considered, even if his more famous works seem on the flippant side to some. Wolfe earned a B.A. cum laude from Washington and Lee University in his native Virginia and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. After Yale, he started climbing a traditional journalism ladder, moving rapidly from The Springfield Union to The Washington Post and then on to The New York Herald Tribune...