Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy transpires in a cold-water flat, where a decent, hardworking, stupid stevedore (Raf Vallone), an immigrant from Italy, lives happily with his dumpy wife (Maureen Stapleton) and a nubile. 17-year-old niece (Carol Lawrence). While his niece was still a child, the stevedore loved her as a daughter. Now he desires her as a woman but he doesn't know it-partly because he is too stupid, partly because he is too weak to face the truth. If he faced it, he would have to give up his unnatural attachment to the girl, and this he cannot...
...instead, Guy bumbles through a war of irrelevances and frustrations and ends up married to an outdoors type from a good, landed Catholic family. Along the way, though, this decent Christian gentleman does two decent Christian things-gestures that Waugh seems to intend as his lighted candles for a naughty world. For one, Guy remarries his flighty exwife...
...story, things begin to seem complicated. True, the English are hypocrites who cannot believe the natives are men like themselves, but they stand for a noble, if stupid, way of life based on service. Even the English girl whose foolish hallucination is the cause of so much bitterness is decent, if dull. And the Indians themselves-generations of subjection have made them children, with all that is appealing and discouragingly immature in children. If they are warm, Forster says, they are also querulous and lack dignity...
...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
Recently, the Crimson has not had much luck at Hanover. Dartmouth basketball squads have been fairly decent, and the rabid Indian fans right on top of the action have unnerved generations of Harvard players...