Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...film concerns an innocent small town boy, the clean-living Charles, who comes to Paris to study law and stays with his city cousin, Paul. Gerard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy do their best to make these young men believable, but though there is somewhat more to the plot than the tale of the country mouse and the city mouse, there is not much more in the way of palpable characters...
...plot is foreshadowed to death. Charles loses the girl, flunks his exams, and dies. Both reality and destiny are against him. Paul wins the girl, passes his exams, and lives, for, after all, this is the way the world is. True, we feel fittingly remorseful when the clean-living hero goes down at the end; but that...
...share some striking similarities in their public images. Their speeches are clean-cut, utterly devoid of oratorical flamboyance. They are both, though smiling often, fundamentally a new, sober breed of politician. And though many who have seen neither close up regard them both as machine-made organization men, one of the surprises of the campaign is the intensity of their impact in person. The crowds swarm around them, eager to touch or be touched by them...
...mannered Daniel L. Schlafly seemed an unlikely man for the job. Vice president of a family business (bottled water), Dan Schlafly, 47, is a Roman Catholic who never attended a public school* and never sent his three children to one. As it turned out, Schlafly has done more to clean up graft in public schools than anyone in the history of the city...
...traced to contaminated water-killed one person, struck down 18 others. Incidence of infectious hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal viral disease of the liver, which can be transmitted by polluted water, is up 71% over 1959. Says the U.S. Public Health Service: "The problem of keeping enough water clean enough to protect the public health has become enormously complex, difficult and urgent...