Word: earnest
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...Turning earnest, Rudenstine encouraged students to "turn in the best performance you can in life," and said that Harvard's newest graduates should always consider it home...
...newsman TOM BROKAW sent the graduating class of Connecticut's Fairfield University into the marketplace with this earnest aphorism: "It's easy to make a buck but hard to make a difference." Easy for him, anyway, especially if he decides to make a difference to the Cable News Network. A few days after the ceremony, the New York Times reported that CNN had offered Brokaw, 57, a $7 million-a-year gig. That's $3 million or $4 million more than the anchor is making now, and Brokaw's NBC contract expires Aug. 30. But outlandish sums often crop...
...every activity is quite so earnest. In the middle of one night each summer, campers will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...
Selby is the only daughter of a British physicist who immigrated to the United States during the "brain drain" of the 1930s. Her parents met at the University of London, where her mother played the role of Cecily in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and her father was a stage manager for the same play...
...CONCEPT OF "CONNECTING" GETS A lot of lip service in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. The title characters use speech, sex, food and music in their sometimes earnest, sometimes weary efforts to make that connection. The sex is fun, but it's not the point. Frankie and Johnny want someone to brush their teeth with in the morning...