Word: villainous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why a man should enjoy supporting a bored wife or being dominated by an emasculating one. Though he may not have to stagnate in his home. there are millions of jobs he could get which are as stultifying as housekeeping. And we are back again to the overworked villain-society...
...denouncing Kapwepwe for worsening the situation with his demagogic statements, however, Kaunda next day blandly urged him, in the interests of national unity, to stay on as Vice President of the country-though not of the party. Kapwepwe could scarcely refuse and risk being cast as an unpatriotic villain. At a press conference in the Vice President's villa, he withdrew his resignation in what he described as a "spirit of selflessness...
This should be daft, glorious stuff, and West ought to lurch into life as a monstrously American folk villain, the match of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett. If Minnesota's lakes are the hoof-prints of Bunyan's blue ox, why can't Warren Harding, Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy be the droppings from Eddie West's cigar...
...aware of this than Charles Franklin Luce, chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison, the world's biggest electric utility. Before coming to Con Ed. Luce dealt with environmental problems as Under Secretary of the Interior. An ardent outdoorsman, he now finds himself cast as a villain by New Yorkers, who have long regarded Con Edison as a blatant polluter. Last week they were incensed over Con Ed's request for a 14% rate increase, its second in three years. Con Ed is in financial trouble, much of it aggravated by a longstanding inefficiency that discourages...
Claude (Claude Berri) is the little Jewish boy of The Two of Us grown to physical if not emotional maturity. His inamorata Isabelle (Elisabeth Wiener) is with child, but Claude is no hit-and-run villain. Wistful, tentative, he may be unsure of the proper words to say, but he knows enough to do the right thing...