Word: decently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plummer also directed, and his work is decent and creditable, if, as I suppose, his many miscastings were forced upon him. As the starcrossed longshoreman Eddie Carbone, Nick Smith is, among other disabilities, twenty years too young. Ruth Bolton Brand, Francesca Solano, Johnny Bell, and Stanley Young are also estimable but over parted in various ways. They get across a good deal of what is in the script, but View from the Bridge is not so stuffed with dramatic riches that any company can afford to let so much of it get away...
Twilight Zone (CBS, Fri. 10-10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is the sort of show that is rare on TV: a half-hour of dramatic entertainment with no pretensions beyond a fresh idea presented by people with a decent respect for the medium and the audience. Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling's stories of the "fifth dimension, between science and superstition," are plotted as carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired...
...Devil's Advocate is Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a dry, self-contained English priest whose sense of vocation has been all but choked under the dust of years in Vatican offices. As he sees himself, he is one of God's empty vessels, a decent man barren of human warmth and love. Furthermore, he is dying of cancer, and the thought panics him: "It was his profession to prepare other men for death; it shocked him to be so unready...
...result the 86th Congress in its first session was faced with "a complacent country that doesn't care and a President who is afraid we'll go broke if we get decent urban renewal, adequate school facilities," and up-to-date public works, Harrison A. Williams, Jr., told the gathering of about 75 students and guests in the Lamont Forum Room...
...duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless, decent, sensitive about being short, and his virtue consists of the absence of vice...