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Word: decent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the one outstanding play of the season has been O'Casey's. In its dignity, freshness, and language, it is the antithesis of stilted and mechanically "avant-garde" off-Broadway. Hopefully its success will indicate that tourist theater cannot totally swallow up decent theater downtown...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Off-Broadway Theater | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...enrolled the contending doctrines under the party labels of Romanticism and Classicism and offered definitions of each which rank as classic. The romantic view is "that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstances"; the classical "that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To one party man's nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket." To Hulme, romanticism was "spilt religion": "You don't believe in God, so you begin to believe that man is a god; you don't believe in Heaven, so you begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Orthodox Gadfly | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

These first few months--with the inaugural address and the selection of the Cabinet--will set the tone of the entire Kennedy Administration. Soon, those of us who supported Kennedy as our only hope for a decent future will know whether our faith was well-placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Party's Over | 11/9/1960 | See Source »

...Craig & Kummel), the ad drew little enthusiasm at first, even from Ida Rosenthal. It soon caught fire, despite protests that it was risque. "We love double meanings," says Beatrice Coleman, Mrs. Rosenthal's daughter and the firm's chief designer, "so long as the double meaning is decent." Maidenform now spends 10% of its sales on advertising, mostly on the "I dreamed" ads. "Let them go on dreaming," says Mrs. Rosenthal. "We have our eyes open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: l Dreamed I Was a Tycoon in My . . . | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Lashing out at economists who "stand and clash on the basis of particular interests," Keyserling urged his colleagues to "either stop talking about the trying times and the need for action," or use their skills to set up a plan to enrich the poor, provide decent medical care and housing, and distribute surpluses to other countries. "There is no doubt that it can be done," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Leading U.S. Economists Argue Government Role in National Growth | 10/13/1960 | See Source »

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