Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
...Everything considered," mused a top Government economist last week, "the economy is in amazingly decent shape. When you think about the political and international strains that have tugged at it, progress has been phenomenal...
...pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado: "Our members used to ride to work on a bicycle and eat cabbage for lunch. Now they own a home, two automobiles, and eat a decent lunch. They don't have to care so much about the union. And this is where our big problem lies-in apathy...
...hours on one hour's briefing.") Goldberg's energy seems inexhaustible, and his personal qualifications are beyond question. Says Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, an outspoken critic of labor who could hardly be farther removed from Goldberg both politically and philosophically: "Goldberg is a very decent fellow, a very capable man and a brilliant lawyer. He's been a good Secretary of Labor...
...long slow look at garrison life: at the startled shake-out in the rosegrey chill of dawn, at the daily dull routine of stores and stables, at the still, interminable afternoons of stunning sun, at the choking reek of dung and 'dobe and unwashed Indian, at the scrawny, decent, infrequent girls and the better-than-nothing flirtations, at the payday booze and the leering squaws and the sudden brutal free-for-alls that burst like dust devils out of the general boredom...