COGIC continues to influence gospel music with a whole new generation of artists with COGIC roots that include: Kim Burell, Kierra Sheard, J. Moss, Micah Stampley, Kurt Carr, Ricky Dillard, Kelly Price, Mary Mary, Tamela Mann, Earnest Pugh, DuShawn Washington and Michelle Williams, The current leader of the International Music Department in Dr. Judith Cristie McAlister of Nashville, TN, who is also a major praise and worship national recording artist.

* 1988 – The strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.

Earnest P. “ Larry ” Pletch shot Carl Bivens, 39, a flight instructor who was offering Pletch lessons in a yellow Taylor Cub monoplane with tandem controls in the air after taking off in Brookfield, Missouri.

* Newman, Earnest, Stories of the Great Operas.

Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.

Earnest Hooton ( 1887 – 1954 ), a Classics PhD from the University of Wisconsin, entered anthropology as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar under R. R. Marett and the anatomist Arthur Keith.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Redskins primary weapon in the backfield was running back Earnest Byner, who ranked 5th in the NFL with 1, 048 rushing yards, while also catching 34 passes for 308 yards and scoring 5 touchdowns.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.

The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere.

In The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell ; The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1992 ) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast ; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 ) incorporated some material cut during the preparation of the original stage production.

In July 1894 he mooted his idea for The Importance of Being Earnest to Sir George Alexander, the actor-manager of St. James's Theatre.

In 1911 The Importance of being Earnest was revived by Alexander in St. James's ; he and Aynesworth resumed their lead roles.

As Wilde's work came to be read and performed again, it was The Importance of being Earnest which saw the most productions.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”

" H. G. Wells, in an unsigned review for the Pall Mall Gazette, called Earnest one of the freshest comedies of the year, saying " More humorous dealing with theatrical conventions it would be difficult to imagine.

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest exaggerates many of the conventions of the well-made play, such as the missing papers conceit ( the hero, as an infant, was confused with the manuscript of a novel ) and a final revelation ( which, in this play, occurs about thirty seconds before the final curtain ).

However, 19th century sources refer to it as " the Albany ," such as the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde which repeatedly refers to the character Jack Worthing's residence at " the Albany ," and in Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend.

A group of African-American men in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana, led by Earnest " Chilly Willy " Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, founded the group in November 1964 to protect civil rights workers, their communities and their families against the Klan.

Earnest “ Chilly Willy ” Thomas was born in Jonesboro, Louisiana, on November 20, 1935, in a time of extreme segregation.

The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and continually revived today.

Max Beerbohm called this play Wilde's " finest, most undeniably his own ", saying that in his other comedies — Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband — the plot, following the manner of Victorien Sardou, is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is " dissolved " into the form of the play.

While Salomé, An Ideal Husband and The Picture of Dorian Gray had dwelt on more serious wrongdoing, vice in Earnest is represented by Algy's craving for cucumber sandwiches.

Blackmail and corruption had haunted the double lives of Dorian Gray and Sir Robert Chiltern ( in An Ideal Husband ), but in Earnest the protagonists ' duplicity ( Algernon's " bunburying " and Worthing's double life as Jack and Ernest ) is undertaken for more innocent purposes – largely to avoid unwelcome social obligations.

While much theatre of the time tackled serious social and political issues, Earnest is superficially about nothing at all.

By contrast, the humour and transformation in The Importance of Being Earnest is much lighter in tone, though Algernon's protest at his putative arrest, " Well I really am not going to be imprisoned in the suburbs for dining in the west-end!

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

Greene County is the home of the oldest college in Tennessee ( Tusculum College ), Tennessee's oldest Methodist congregation ( the Ebenezer Methodist Church, near Chuckey ), and Tennessee's second oldest continuously cultivated farm ( Elmwood Farm, part of the Earnest Farms Historic District ).

As of 2011 Earnest Nash, Jr. is the Mayor of Gould.

In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest there is an exchange between Jack Worthing and Lady Bracknell about his suitability as a match for her daughter Gwendolen.

The current mayor is Earnest " Earnie " Porta, who was first elected in 2006, and won re-election in 2008, 2010, and 2012.

As the American anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton used to say: < em lang =" la ">" Primas sum: primatum nil a me alienum puto "</ em > (" I am a primate ; nothing about primates is outside of my bailiwick ").

As an example, Earnest Elmo Calkins noted to fellow advertising executives in 1932 that " consumer engineering must see to it that we use up the kind of goods we now merely use ", while the domestic theorist Christine Frederick observed in 1929 that " the way to break the vicious deadlock of a low standard of living is to spend freely, and even waste creatively ".

Earnest and inexperienced, Lensky is wounded to the core and challenges Onegin to fight a duel ; Onegin reluctantly accepts, feeling compelled by social convention.

He is best remembered for his roles as the Sultan in The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), the poetically-inclined hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and as Dr. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

Earnest, concerned with social issues and moral values, it is puritanical poetry in which aesthetic considerations are secondary.

*: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ( Cecily is making a catty remark to Miss Fairfax, a Londoner, by using " common " in two senses, namely " numerous " and " vulgar " as in the expression " common thief.

In Oscar Wilde's 1895 play < i > The Importance of Being Earnest </ i >, Dr. Chasuble is a reverend who, in the 2002 film adaptation, is seen wearing his namesake robe.

The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

In the first act of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest ( 1895 ), cucumber sandwiches that have expressly been ordered and prepared for Lady Bracknell's expected visit are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew and host, Algernon Moncrieff ; consequently he is forced to tell a little lie, with his butler's connivance: namely that " there were no cucumbers in the market this morning ... not even for ready money ".