Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine...
In Mexico, the kidnapers' leader turned out to be Raymond Napoleon, 24, a primary-school teacher, whose relatives are being held in jail. "I belong to no party," he declared, "but I am part of a group of students and teachers who are fighting the Duvalier government." The twelve...
Now Dunlop is off to Washington, where it seems likely he will wield enormous power as head of the Cost of Living Council. One imagines the jolly press conferences a year hence in which Dunlop will tell the nation that the price of hamburger has risen only 40 per cent...
The ceremony was as determinedly British as it might have been in the era of the Raj. In a singular display of military punctilio, the new field marshal even received a congratulatory cable from the Pakistan army chief of staff, General Tikka Khan, who was military governor of East Pakistan...
Beau Bridges is appropriately agitated throughout. Preston seems miscast, adept at being folksy and jolly but confounded when he is called upon to be sinister. Memories of The Music Man constantly intrude, and we keep expecting him to break into a chorus of Seventy-Six Trombones. James Mason is superb...