Word: workaday
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...light times." Seasonal froth still abounds, but more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read for profit, party for contacts, lunch for contracts, bowl for unity, drive for mileage, gamble for charity, go out for the evening for the greater glory...
...through the orchestra, he plopped down on his chair, tossed a quick glance at the conductor and began to play-so abruptly that he took the audience by surprise. Head bobbing, lips pursed in concentration, he embraced his cello bear-hug fashion and sawed away with the workaday look of a man slicing bread...
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy, Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy. Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
Alfie! by Bill Naughton. A bird is a girl in cockney argot, and Alfie is strictly out for the birds. In this unpretentious and consistently pleasant comedy, Alfie counts the workaday world well lost for lust. He is the modern, international antihero, the man who wants to be kind to everyone and responsible...