Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbus's day, as German Author Joachim Leithauser has pointed out, mankind believed itself to be in its old age, destined for poverty, sickness and evil. The famous Nurnberg Chronicle of 1493 predicted: "Conditions will be so terrible that no man will be able to lead a decent life. Then will all the sorrows of the Apocalypse pour down upon mankind: Flood, Earthquake, Pestilence and Famine; neither shall the crops grow nor the fruits ripen; the wells will dry up and the waters will bear upon them blood and bitterness, so that the birds of the air, the beasts...
...does not have to be this way. One act of good faith could transform this situation like the stroke of a sword. One decent act on the order of "the fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this"--one decent act would move all but the most hardened ideologue to reconsider his attitudes. But in the same way, further acts of distrust and rigidity, no matter what principles they embody will only serve to move the most open minded of students into the camp of the ideologues...
...insurmountable, obstacle to reform is the American belief that no one should get something for nothing. In fact, there are relatively few able bodied men on welfare (.7% of the total), and there is little evidence that very many men would stay on welfare if they could get a decent job. Yet proponents of income supplements ought to concede that the plans might indeed make things easier for the lazy. A potentially superior system ought not to be rejected because of possible or even likely abuses; but the whole idea is likely to run counter to the American ethos...
...attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia. "But you get tired, you get old, you want comfort," Hayward says. "Evtushenko is a decent person who has succumbed to pressures that are almost inhuman...
...useful, however, to try to understand the process of learning-by-imitation outlined here, because radicals could well use these methods for the opposite ends to foster decent human values and attitudes. At the very least, Dr. Bandura's work should teach us to realize quite how dangerous it is to leave control of the media in the wrong hands...