Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would the Catholics exercise rigid censorship on literature, movies, television? "We can expect a good deal of Catholic pressure along these lines," says Bennett. Organizations such as the Legion of Decency and the National Organization for Decent Literature, writes Schlesinger, "have already meddled outrageously with the freedom of non-Catholics . . ." But he sees them as "transient phenomena...
...never had a decent job, has always instinctively looked for the softest touch-and in his heart he knows that his own weakness has always been the enemy. His girl has walked out on him, and his best friend is stalking her. But he still has his looks, his tenuous charm. For a time it seems that his love for a nurse will pull him out of his resentment and self-pity; but she recognizes that any wife of Dick's is bound to become a mere crutch. At the end, the author unconvincingly suggests that Dick...
...there. Of the 18 separate counts filed against him, five included the kidnaping of two women, crimes of sex perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes," as the Los Angeles Times put it last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping...
Standing above this seamy landscape is Soldner, a decent schoolmaster who is appalled by the grossness of pupils and parents. There are exceptions, of course, and he falls in love with a fine woman who refuses to believe that her soldier husband, missing in World War II, will not one day return. It is her daughter, one of Soldner's students, whose nightmarish experiences give the book an aura of suspense that is more effective than its theme of corruption-by-money. The bearer of horror is a mentally unbalanced youth determined to have the young girl. His pursuit...
...Katz agreed that the hunger was there, and gave one cogent reason: there is hardly any modern art displayed in the Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When Katz told me that," Rose recalls, "quick like a train I said, 'Give me five acres for my sculpture...