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...Miami secretary: "My take-home pay was $135 a week. I spent $35 for child care, about $10 getting back and forth to the office and maybe $10 for clothes to wear at work. I'm better off staying at home and drawing unemployment checks." With benefits so generous, still other workers arrange to leave their jobs to look for better employment; last month 929,000 people left their jobs of their own free will...
...must also record America's generous impulse, which has made its people responsive to the troubles of others. Hence many nations expect America to play its part in the building of an equitable economic order and to view with sympathy the efforts of other nations to achieve self-reliance...
...right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse of a stag reel...
Updike subtitles the novel "a romance," an artistic sleight of hand by which he allows himself the generous introduction of coincidences. The resonances of the original romance, the Garden of Eden parable, are plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children...
Trumbo, obviously dying as the 1975 interviews which interpolate the film were made, nevertheless communicates a self-confidence and circumspection missing from some of the other writers who couldn't rebound the way he did. Successful enough to be generous, Trumbo is able to empathize to the extent that he projects himself back in time: "I had three children. I had a nice wife. Why should I go to jail...