Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good film in the escape genre is the frankly commercial Great Escape, now making the rounds. Never promising much more than a western with swastikas, it maintains excitement and enjoyment throughout, and offers one or two decent acting jobs in addition. The Elusive Corporal, by contrast, is a distressing failure...
...best play of the year if not the decade," Miss Littlewood's production encourages tedium through its repetition. Erecting a super-structure reminiscent of The Threepenny Opera, complete with skeletal sets, narrator, and Kurt Weil orchestra, she and writer Charles Chilton have failed to provide a decent base, for their play is as black and white as the actors' costumes. After five minutes no one doubts that boobery is the best that the leaders can manage, that soldiers are great guys if only left alone, and that war is a pretty stupid business. Spare fare indeed, especially when larded with...
...American funeral director-that dispenser of authoritative and soothing advice-has suddenly found himself shouted at, reproached and de plored in a clamor that has shattered the hush of the nation's funeral parlors and made many an undertaker sweat uneasily beneath his decent black suit...
...intact. With the momentum of a balky suburban train, Joy tells of the domestic crises suffered by a young law student and his trembling teen-age bride in the first year of their marriage. The two survive because the heroine is "a friendly, warmhearted girl who likes people. No decent person would take advantage of that." Certainly not Novelist Smith...
Elmer Leopold Reizenstein grew up in Manhattan in a family of decent-hearted intellectual ciphers who owned no books. His mother smothered him in a cocoon of maternal affection; his father, an epileptic, mainly embarrassed the boy. But there was Grandpa, who took him to plays at the German Theater in Irving Place at an early age, and Uncle Will, who offered to slip him the money for his initial excursion into...