Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing Dan can cozen a long-ignored son (Orson Bean) into giving him houseroom...
Concern by the white middle class with what it thinks is decay of the moral fiber of America will remain an important factor in national elections, James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, maintained last night...
...This election is merely a choice between moral decay and radioactive decay...
...ugly raving and ranting of the hate groups, heaping calumny on the revered Court [Oct. 9], is one of the many indications of decay in our national morality. Respect for law and the courts, and most certainly the Supreme Court, is essential for the survival of our democratic institutions...
...Northern New Jersey, Johnson proclaimed that the American people "are weary of those who preach that America is failing in the world and faltering at home. The people are tired of being told that their character is in question, that their moral fiber is riddled with rot and decay. The American people want leadership which believes in them, not leadership which berates them...