Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Quiller Memorandum demonstrates a degree of technical imagination. The color--particularly a single purple-tinted shot of Berlin at night--and the editing manage to convey the ugliness of the spy business without being ugly themselves. Yet the generally decent quality of one spy movie cannot, amidst all the tripe, justify a whole mess of them...
...Ramparts published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...
...understand that phrase as a decent one and want to tell you what those considerations are. There are about 1,400,000 American high school students in poverty. Some number have the smart and the persistence to negotiate some college somewhere. We think it's about one-half--or 700,000. We have hold of a piddling 20,000 of these in Upward Bound from Guam to Maine. The distribution of these students is important. Some per cent of all poverty high school students live in each state. We try, not always successfully, to spend Upward Bound money roughly...
...going on somewhere. The prisoners are making camouflage nets for the Germans, rather than mailbags. All sorts of people-"politicals" -are arriving in prison who have no business there. The narrator is indignant that the criminal hierarchy is put out of balance by spiritually hostile elements-decent ordinary people...
...against the slaughter of political enemies that would result from a Communist take over? Who can really count future casualties in Viet Nam and weigh them against the casualties of another war that might have to be fought later in Thailand? These are agonizing questions, on which decent men can reach different conclusions. Even, says Professor Ramsey, if the conflict in South Viet Nam itself were to destroy "more values than there is hope of gaining, one must not forget that there are more values and securities and freedoms" to be reckoned with beyond Viet Nam-in Asia and elsewhere...