Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standard Model. In many ways Clark is a standard assembly-line model. U.S. generals are supposed to avoid such dreamy and imprecise stuff as highbrow art, music and books; Clark fishes and reads the Satevepost. Card games are okay; in the last two weeks Clark has had time for just one go at canasta with his wife (he won). U.S. generals are not supposed to get fat, lest they look bad in uniform; Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European...
Last week, the proposed merger of New York's Manufacturers Trust Co. with the New York Trust Co. (TIME, May 26), was also called off because "certain large stockholders" of New York Trust refused to okay the deal...
...Okay forget it. Let's pick another. You and your horses, and your nutty brother...
...nothing more than a loosely-tied string of cliches. Judy refuses to date a racketeer, name of Joe. Larry, Judy's childhood sweetheart, comes home and Judy falls in love with him again. Joe is killed in a drunken brawl and Larry is suspected. But it all works out okay, because the real murderer is found with a bloody hanky in his pocket. The unimaginative libretto by the composer's wife doesn't help...
...dialogue is quick and witty, ranging from "Okay, wise guy, don't say we didn't warn you," to, "Honey, I've never met any girl like you before." A subtle mind should be able to keep up with this reparte without any trouble...