Word: okay
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...pretty much the same shape. The agent of his undoing is a World War II French waif, Charley Dupont, who "was born in Europe's misery and came to America in his youth, imbued with the irony of hope." Dupont bears a disturbing message: "It's okay to believe," and the grail he seeks is simply citizenship papers...
Pointless writing like that--and examples could be taken from almost every piece in the issue--is not only offensive, it is also dull. One thinks of Harry Truman's reaction to the Follies Bergere: "It was okay for the first few minutes, but you get tired of watching a lot of naked women bounce around after a while." The editors and the writers will undoubtedly insist that their frankness shows life as it is, that openness about sex belongs to the new trend in literature, and that the artist must be honest. Few would disagree with them. But proportion...
...brought back miles of film showing target areas, defenses, terrain, mountains, lakes, forests. In all that time, Soviet MIG pilots swarmed helplessly below. On at least one occasion, a Soviet pilot, straining to climb to within U-2 range, radioed, "We kill, Yank!" And the U-2 pilot replied: "Okay, try it!" The pilot was safe in his dare...
Bitter Complaints. The trouble started six weeks ago when the CAB refused to okay a fare increase that had already been approved by the International Air Transport Association, the all-powerful airline trade group whose 90 member airlines set standard fares the world over. Since I.A.T.A. had approved the fare hike back in October and the CAB rejected it only two weeks before it was to go into effect, other members were understandably shocked and angered by the lateness of the CAB action. Foreign carriers complained bitterly that they had already printed new tickets, sent out new promotional brochures...
Although he is widely conceded reelection next year, Kennedy is taking no chances. For weeks his brother-in-law, Stephen E. Smith, has been touring the country and touching up the Kennedy organization. At the same time, Administration stalwarts argue that, okay, maybe Kennedy has had to compromise on a few issues that he considered basic. But that is because he is a first-term President who must, to see his ideals come to bloom, be reelected. Kennedy's second term, under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, will be his last. And so, unhampered by political considerations...