Word: happier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they" are is not stated-perhaps it does not need to be -but the truth is that the casinos do look as if they would be happier in the deserts of Nevada. The architects have all but ignored both the Boardwalk and the ocean in their designs, and one could live for days in most of the casinos and think that the only water around was that coming out of the bathroom faucet. Those waves on the other side of the beach are clearly irrelevant to the casino owners, and they seem to be wishing for someone like Rosie...
...impressed by his sales figures. The first chapters of the author's next novel met a cool response from some house editors. There followed a familiar story: author complains that his books are not handled or promoted properly; publisher is sympathetic and hints that the writer might be happier at another house...
...nonunion controller in Miami: "I'll work seven days a week, 16 hours a day, to keep them from coming back." Nor do the supervisors want to go back to pushing paper. "I'm having a ball," says Mike Hughes, a supervisor in Miami. "I'm happier with my job now than I have been in the past three years...
...more battles than he has lost. In a speech to the National Press Club last week, White House Chief of Staff James Baker interrupted a litany of the Administration's achievements to observe: "All of us, from the President on down, would have been far happier if we had seen fewer stories about squabbling and turf fighting on foreign policy...
Charles Malik, former Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S., at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.: "They tell you there is steady progress in history; they tell you modern man is better and happier than any man in the past; they tell you we are more advanced, spiritually, morally, intellectually than all the ages of the past. This is all false. In the more important things in life, history does not disclose steady progress. There are a few shining peaks of the spirit with many intervening sloughs and valleys...