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...duke wanted me to go on this way." Another reason is her reluctance to disband her staff of 17 servants. Still another factor: Black Diamond and Gin-Seng, the last of the dynasty of pug dogs who pranced about the Windsors in a thousand news photos. "We are all happier here, and safer than in a hotel," says the duchess. "I have always been timid," she admits. "Thunderstorms frighten me, and I won't travel in planes if I can avoid...
These autumn evenings, she likes to reminisce about happier days. Recently, she surprised some guests by singing the German words to a sentimental old waltz that she and the duke first heard in Vienna long ago. Translation...
...weary Department of Health Education and Welfare finally accepted Harvard's third affirmative action proposal last week on condition that 13 items be modified--a happier solution than outright rejection for both Harvard and the government...
...glance, the film appears to be an apology for the economic ruthlessness forced on Verdoux after he lost his job in the depression. But when he surprises his wife (Mady Correll) by telling her that he has been able to pay off their mortgage, she realizes that they were happier when they were poor. Cut off from the truth about her husband, she nevertheless recognizes the corrosive side effects of his work...
...space for their own survival, not just the 'privilege' of being volunteer rather than coerced servants of institutional ambition. (An industrial version of this occurs when a management lets workers form production teams rather work on the assembly line. Production, of course, goes up. The workers are a bit happier. But their relationship to the ruling institution remains unchanged. They have been made happier, not for humane reasons, but for the strictly businesslike one of getting more and better work out of them. It is like a sweet, secret wage cut in the final analysis...