Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Persons such as Lee Rosen would evidently be content to live their workaday lives . . . ignorant of the world-shaking and heartbreaking events that are taking place in the Far East today. Such attitudes are greatly responsible for the wretched state of affairs the world is in today...
...company manuals, collected his paycheck ($13,000 a year) and logged his day's flight for the last time. "I don't want to quit flying," he admitted. "No flyer ever will." But Heath Proctor, who had watched the airlines graduate from a risky adventure to a workaday routine, had passed his 60th birthday-the first man on any U.S. airline ever to reach retirement age while still a pilot...
...best, the movie is an absorbing, human documentary of the airborne supply of a Soviet-blockaded Berlin.* It spins the hard facts smoothly into what is essentially a story of individual Americans and Germans. It catches the raillery and workaday heroism of the U.S. air crews, as well as some sharp vignettes, both grim and comic, of life in a broken, hungry city. Its camera work does full justice to the brooding ruins of Berlin and to graceful C-545 gliding dangerously down to a fog-shrouded Tempelhof field...
...carvings of workaday subjects were both vigorous and elaborate. The dean of Renaissance art experts, Bernard Berenson, was instantly reminded, when he first saw them, of "the Early Christian sarcophagi that line the grand staircase of the Lateran Museum in Rome. The same stumpy, neckless bodies, with disproportionately big heads of late antique shape, the same crowding, the same . . . distribution of light and shade...
...workaday diplomacy, Canadian government leaders liked the attentive hearing Steinhardt gave their problems and his willingness to go to bat for Canada in Washington. "The trouble with Canadians is that they never make enough noise...