Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scene occurs almost at the end, and annoyance to voyeurs who could have come an hour late without missing a thing, and to the other, decent-minded people in the audience who are kept on tenterhooks wondering how much longer they have to enjoy the film before it is time to walk out. As it happens, this scene of explicit sex is irrelevant to the rest of the story and was not included in the original play. Aldrich would probably justify the raw sex a s showing up Mrs. Mercy's basic physical nature in contrast to June's never...
...that care as interns and residents. Across the continent, New York's Cherkasky declares, there is now "a substantial number of medical stu dents who don't put economics above everything else. These young people want to find in their profession a social commitment as well as a decent living. These kids are marvelous. They're even beginning to force changes in the curriculum...
...most hospitals is to operate in the black. For generations, U.S. hospitals achieved this by paying little or nothing to interns, residents, student nurses and "nonprofessional" help. Social justice has caught up with the hospitals and found them totally unprepared. They have to pay interns and residents halfway decent salaries ($9,000 to $12,000 in some areas). What has hit them hardest is the demand of scrubwomen, kitchen help and janitors to be paid what is called a living wage. Most U.S. hospitals are grudgingly raising the pay of this nonprofessional help to $1.60 an hour, though...
...allow the premise that most of us are really interested in getting a decent education, and that we will, in the long run, be fairly prudent in doing so, it seems likely that we will take out exams on schedule. Most of use realize the disadvantages of postponing an exam and will be reluctant to do so unless it is truly necessary. For the rest, the experience of two make-ups in April will be enough to bring those disadvantages home...
...people, or students, or the third world, as merely our attempt to project our personal failure to "make it" on to those other groups, is to fail totally to understand the motivations of SDS. Worse, I think, it cuts one off from one of the fundamental hopes for a decent politics in America, and the world, namely, that the disaffected and the oppressed, whatever their differences, can unite to struggle against the common causes of their oppression. Perhaps that is utopian, but far less so I think than the fantasy that Gene McCarthy somehow changed the structure of American politics...