Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOREMAN...
...minutes before by an electric timing device. Evenings they watch Laramie or the samurai dramas on their television set and right off the winter chill by toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last year-that they also own a refrigerator, transistor radio, vacuum cleaner, electric iron and washer. If the expectant Kumiko presents him with a son next month, Seiji even talks confidently of sending...
...Negroes on the economic scale-first by the best possible training, second by fighting for job opportunities. Assistant Principal Victor D. Lewis recalls, for example, "a big decorating firm downtown that wouldn't hire a Negro, even to clean a brush. Now one of our people is a foreman there. We simply produced a good decorator and challenged them to hire...
...pretensions. It is difficult to turn out either a good action thriller, or a good psychological study of war (such as "Paths of Glory"). It is probably not possible to do both, and certainly the Guns of Navarone has failed in its half-hearted attempt. Writer-producer Carl Foreman would have been well advised to stick closer to the book, which aspires to do nothing more than tell a good story...
...speeches become more foolish by the fact that writer Foreman has made no attempts to give his characters motivation, to instill them with substance or individuality. To him they are merely puppets, the storyteller's devices in advancing the plot. There is, of course, nothing necessarily wrong with this--it permits a much faster pace. But interplay between puppets is likely to be unconvincing, and indeed it is. David Niven's cynical outbursts are dull unless they are funny, and the whole business about how Anthony Quinn is going to kill Gregory Peck when the war is over just doesn...