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...Allen, The Goldbergs, The Aldrich Family or Mama. Like its competitors, Lucy holds a somewhat grotesque mirror up to middle-class life, and finds its humor in exaggerating the commonplace incidents of marriage, business and the home. Lucille's Cuba-born husband, Desi Arnaz, is cast as the vain, easily flattered leader of an obscure rumba band. Lucille plays his ambitious wife, bubbling with elaborate and mostly ineffectual schemes to advance his career...
...parasitic humility. When they had babies, she came for long visits to help around the house. Soon she was there to stay, slavishly waiting upon and subtly corrupting her brother-in-law. Still prim & proper, she cast her body before him, and while David did not succumb, he was vain enough to enjoy her worship. By hints he urged her not to marry, and she was delighted to obey...
...voice crackled over his radio to his base near Seoul: "Gas too low to reach secondary target. Am returning to base." It was his last message. Two days later, after Air Force and Navy planes had searched in vain among North Korea's hills, the U.S. Fifth Air Force posted young Jim and his two crewmen "Missing in Action...
...vain that one protests that 'prevent us in all our doings' might become 'precede us,'" complained Vicar J. B. Phillips. "The argument seems to be that, if people want to join in the church's worship, then they must learn the church's language. This . . . does nothing to bridge the gap between church and people...
When asked about former IPR members like Frederic V. Field '27, Greene said during the '20's and '30's many American young people cherished the vain hope that by promoting friendly contacts, antagonisms between the U.S. and Russia could be softened...