Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composers working with computer scientists on expanding the horizons of sound. An ensemble of musicians who play conventional instruments is now complete. The final step was taken this month when Espace de Projection, the hall for public concerts, was opened with the works of two young composers. There were earnest speeches about exploring the limits of limitlessness, some exhilarating sounds as well The as menacing booms from the void, "You but it was the hall that stole the show...
This weekend Ivy League football season begins in earnest for the Crimson, and if last Saturday's game is any sort of indication, for the next few Saturdays Harvard Stadium should be a football inferno...
Still, Go Tell the Spartans is, within its limits, an earnest and honest little picture that goes against the escapist grain of movies at this moment. The gesture is probably as futile, commercially, as defending Muc Wa was militarily, but you have to applaud the bravery of the effort and issue some kind of citation to a film that, all told, celebrates unconsciously honorable conduct by individuals enlisted in a bad cause. And offers a lot of good acting in the supporting roles too. -Richard Schickel
...dark realm of criminality as such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved lenience with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights...
...across the country. For weeks after the address--especially in the Midwestern heartland where indignant, patriotic feathers are most easily ruffled--the editorial pages of the big-city dailies and small-town weeklies alike over-flowed with letters. Most supported Rosalynn Carter's response to the Solzhenitsyn speech, an earnest argument on the evening news that America is still strong and wholesome as ever...