Word: bane
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Many a working man still counts on overtime to finance a vacation or a new TV set, but the top ranks of labor increasingly regard the institution as more of a bane than a blessing. Their criticism reflects a growing union feeling that overtime work is stealing a chance to work from the nation's jobless, and their demands to curb it rank with the 35-hour week as a favored solution to high unemployment. In a bow to organized labor, President Johnson joined the attack in his State of the Union message by proposing a study to consider...
...experience" in The American Scene often seems little more than a deliberate rehearsal of performing sensibilities. Yet Geismar would have more effectively re-evaluated James if he had taken a kindlier attitude toward these failings and admitted James's virtues as well. Instead, he awkwardly raises a most bane question for literary critics--in a piece of art to be judged apart from the artist who made it?--and never answers...
...hates his movies. "In a film, you are a puppet," he says. "On a stage, you are the boss." Significantly, he was the tribune Marcellus in The Robe, the first CinemaScope spectacle. "It is the bane of my life," he says. "Whenever a fan comes up to me and says, 'I enjoyed you in ..." I wince, and wait. It's almost always The Robe. The picture was rubbish. It was written as if for Peg's Paper*It was tastelessly sentimental, and badly acted by me." How did he like The Rains of Ran-chipur? "Beyond human belief." Bitter Victory...
Originally the Common Market pledged itself to prevent the rise of the great industrial cartels that were the bane of prewar Europe. But now a different philosophy guides the Eurocrats. It is that the whole world is the coming market, and that for Europeans to win a larger share of it they must build companies as big as the American giants. Last week the Common Market approved in principle a major reconcentration of the Ruhr's legendary but war-splintered Thyssen steel empire. The six-nation High Authority said that a "favorable decision" can be expected within a month...
...Bounty & the Bureaucracy. Such production is both a blessing and a bane to the U.S. Under the Government's inane farm program, it has saddled the taxpayers with surplus worth $6.5 billion. The maintenance cost alone for this larder runs to better than $2,000,000 a day. Worst of all, the bounty has brought with it a bureaucracy the likes of which the U.S. has never seen before...