Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claude van Itahe's America Hurrah and Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers. "We are at last released from the tyranny of the theatrical leaseholder," says Osborne dryly. "There will probably be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of cheerful, decent, serious British filth...
...small group of Harvard students distributed a leaflet at the rally in which they proclaimed their intention to sweep Wallace "to the White House and beyond." The leaflet, which was prepared by a Harvard undergraduate organization ralled "X", said that Wallace had won the support of "the decent and the simple, the forgotten and the remembered" by proclaiming "as Washington did and Grant after him, 'No man has the right to be bound by humanity...
...WHAT HAS the Lampoon done? It has published a periodical which includes a couple of decent jokes, a shelf full of bad ones carved out of overworked motifs, a bunch of color photographs taken by the same guys who take pictures for Life, and five pages of Life advertising plus a mail-in Life subscription card...
...parents and your grandparents are gonna be so ashamed," they would hiss at the workers. "Someday they's gonna find out you been livin' with niggers and making' trouble." Others were more direct. "You goddam white niggers," they would say. "Why dontcha just get out of here and leave decent folk alone...
...inaudible reply. "Well ah'm sure relieved to hear that. We've got so sick of all these hippies and nigger lovers that come down here. Just makes you want to bash 'em and clean the town up--just like killin' the rats so's decent people can have a place to live...