Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central character is Carter Jones, splendidly sung by Negro Baritone McHenry Boatwright. Schuller sees Jones as "the type of Negro whose personal and racial characteristics have become undefined because of attempts over the years to adapt himself to the dominating social order. He simply wants to lead a decent life in an indecent society. " Onstage, that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends...
...Elis cannot defeat the Big Red -- with or without Dowling, who is still a questionable starter -- then the championship will clearly be between Dartmouth and Harvard. Yale has been an enigma all season. Its offense has powerful running from Calvin Hill, but has lacked consistency against its only two decent opponents, Rutgers and Connecticut. Until last Saturday's game with Columbia (0-4), Yale's defense had looked the most impressive in the League...
...present basis, the success of the New York Film Festival depends almost entirely on the output of the world's major directors, and on the highly debatable number of decent narrative films produced in a given year. The taste of the programmers is decidedly old-fashioned (the schedules proudly announced that one film was "discovered by Bosley Crowther"). Unless they are content to have history record them only as a show-case for the films of three or four great directors, the Festival committee must explore films outside of the straight-narrative form...
...successful aphrodisiac"), Any God Will Do is not as acidly funny as it keeps promising to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose in the presence of his desperate snob, and an author...
...most interesting event. The Macmillan autobiography may seem stuffy, obliged as he is to outline the magnificent contours of a great world he never made, but which certainly made him. The principles of manufacture were sound, the workmanship solid. The figure that emerges from this is surprisingly sympathetic; a decent and far from humorless man who was both brave and honorable...