Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called a cockeyed left-winger. But he may well be the youngest metropolitan-daily editor in the U.S. He is 26, an age at which many journalists are still writing obits or patrolling the police beat. Editor Evans has never written an obituary or chased an ambulance. Gifted and earnest, Stan Evans is a product of Yale ('55, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). In college he fell in with a group of students that called itself "The Inter-Collegiate Society of Individualists." In this company Evans studied the record of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, decided that McCarthy...
...next installment, a few irreverent words of advice: Mr. Nixon, you do not look earnest on camera when Mr. Kennedy is speaking; you look positively malevolent; do something about your face. Mr. Kennedy, this "half-slave, half-free" bit is tired; find a new lead. Mr. Nixon, anyone who knows the President's news conferences would know that he was not being facetious when he said that if he were given a week, he might think of a major idea you had proposed; he was merely having his usual troubles with the English language; of course, that's rather difficult...
...started painting in earnest after World War I, when he settled in the French village of Giverny on the Seine. There he would spend hours watching his ancient neighbor Claude Monet paint his lily pond. He went to Chartres and was overwhelmed by the cathedral windows, in Paris became the friend of Picasso, Miró and Braque, before returning to the U.S. for good in 1939. He passed through an impressionist phase, dabbled in cubism. But the rise of Hitler convinced him that any art not primarily concerned with moral and spiritual issues...
...jump, the U.S. thought it had its surest gold medal candidate: Boston University's lithe John Thomas, 19. holder of the world record at 7 ft. 31n. Confident as ever, Thomas seemed reluctant even to take off his sweat suit for early jumps. When the competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio of Russians had never gone over 7 ft. | in. But as the bar rose steadily, Thomas began to peer nervously at the Russians. All four cleared 7 ft. 31n. Then Robert Shavlakadze and Valery Brumel made it over...
...Design boasted not only Gropius but also Marcel Breuer. Finally, after a stint in the Army as private first class No. 31-303-426 and three more years as "a self-employed designer," Johnson got his New York State license to practice. At 42, his career began in earnest...