Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
...Earnest and anxious to please, John Barbirolli did his best to fill Toscanini's shoes. The orchestra tried to help him by pulling its punches. But before the first season was over, it was obvious even to Carnegie Hall's ushers that the fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman's proffered hand after that generous speech...
There are still a few fundamentalists left who repudiate the doctrine that men and apes evolved from a common primate stock. Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton thinks the shoe should be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, ''would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
...Earnest, unaffected Midwesterner Smith briefly visited two U. S. universities (Ohio, Washington), studied art at Manhattan's Art Students' League, last spring gave a show of abstract sculpture which he forged of iron (TIME, April 22). The inspiration for his medallions came from coins and cylinder seals which he saw in Greece. To convey the classic feeling, he put his initials and inscriptions in Greek letter on some of the medals-but in "Coffee Pot Greek," like a word inscribed on War Exempt Sons of the Rich which spells out "soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian...