Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leslie Howard's delicately crafted Ashley Wilkes manages to embody both the glamor and the shoddiness of the Southern gentleman myth. Set against Gable's robustness, his sensitivity and final impotence illuminates the inadequacy of the chivalric code of honor in nineteenth-century industrial America. Olivia de Havilland triumphantly transforms the ludicrously good-natured Melinie Wilkes into a full-blooded character. Thanks to Miss De Havilland, Melanie's mild goodness becomes a genuine and ever-increasing source of strength for the other characters. The film wisely refrains from showing the scene in which she restores Gable's sanity; we have...
...again last week at a Washington dinner, where Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen was presented with the William J. Donovan Medal by veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. "I heard that many members of Congress would be here tonight," Lyndon deadpanned, "and I thought I would honor an old OSS tradition by dropping in behind the enemy lines. The man you honor tonight is often accused of being my fifth column on the Hill. I want all of you to know that Everett Dirksen is the only column I haven't complained about all year long." Then...
...effect of the place is singularly noble and solemn, and it is impossible to feel it without a lifting of the heart. It stands there for duty and honor, it speaks of sacrfiice and example, seems a kind of temple to youth, manhood, generosity. The simple emotion of the old fighting-time came back to him, and the monument around him seemed an embodiment of that memory; it arched over friends as well as enemies, the victims of defeat as well as the sons of triumph...
...lessen its huge balance-of-payments deficit, one of the chief causes of the pound's trouble. In the arcane, gentlemanly confines of the world's money managers, Britain has long been considered a naughty boy. In such circles, a nation's currency is its honor, and Britain's has been constantly imperiled by the country's inability to earn its own way in the world. The decision of the major powers not to devalue works to make the British move more effective, since a me-too devaluation by everybody would largely cancel out whatever...
...Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence was tribute enough. Out of the whole elegant gang, only Véronique Peck, 35, wife of Gregory, and Nicole Salinger, 28, Pierre...