Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Hollywood's everlasting Hardy family, One Man's Family (the Barbours) is an imaginary upper-middle-class family full of common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than...
Obsequial Engineer. Businessmen have hastened to take advantage of the general, linguistic license. Deeply characteristic of American life, says Mencken, is the desire of the little man to make himself sound bigger, of the common man to make himself uncommon. (Even in the 18th Century, small New England shopkeepers had ditched the British shop in favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been...
Whether Italy's new Common Man Premier could cope with conditions for which uncommon talents were needed remained to be seen...
...those with the patience to read Wars I Have Seen slowly may discover an uncommon charm and perception. Some excerpts...
...Chiang is the one man who can make Chinese unity and independence a reality. His faults can be understood when the complexities of the Chinese puzzle are studied . . . and they are no more uncommon than the faults of other leaders of the United Nations. We are committed to Chiang and we will help him to the best of our ability. He, and he alone, can untangle the present situation because, in spite of some of the things he has done, he is China...