Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, by completely failing to realize any of the possibilities suggested by the various scenes, Shalako does propel the mind to tangential daydreaming. I got hung up on how amazingly little screen presence Connery has. A colleague emerged from the picture meditating that someone ought to make a decent picture about mountain-climbers. Another friend who shared this minor unpleasantness with us tried to figure out which part of the USA most resembled the locations in Spain where the film was shot. Yet another surmised, correctly I think, that the reason Shalako is an "outdoor" picture is that...
...near poor. Over the past three decades, Washington has poured some $6.5 billion into housing subsidies and urban renewal, committed at least another $13 billion as yet unspent to the same controversial programs. Yet one recent White House report estimated that 8,300,000 Americans still cannot afford a decent place to live...
...Nice and Decent. "The Deadly Theater" is an all too common experience. One has only to sniff the garbage that piles up on Broadway and London's West End every season. But Brook is interested in subtler forms of deadliness, an anemia that saps Shakespeare as well as silly plays. He feels that each drama must be reborn rather than merely remembered and repeated, and that rebirth is fully as difficult as birth. A play dies when too vast a gap develops between it and the life around it. The exquisite mandarinisms of the centuries old Peking Opera...
There is also a deadly spectator who helps kill drama. He is the theatergoer whose only conception of good theater is that it be nice, decent, reassuring and uplifting, but never marrow-chilling or soul-devouring. Playwrights themselves propagate dead plays, since most of them cannot fulfill the single most demanding requisite of vital drama: "A playwright is required by the very nature of drama to enter into the spirit of opposing characters. He is not a judge; he is a creator. The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another-a principle on which all of Shakespeare...
...people who worked this year for peace abroad and progress at home, today's voting marks a bitter conclusion. But in Massachusetts, there is still one unambiguously good and decent thing that voters can do today. This is to vote "No" on Question #6, and thus to help speed the abolition of the death penalty in this state...