Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject matter for comedy." Instead of "profanity is forbidden," the code specifies that "undue profanity should not be permitted." Where once the code banned nudity altogether, it now forbids "indecent or undue exposure." When a reporter asked Valenti if "bare breasts could be deemed indecent in one film and decent in another," Valenti emphatically replied...
...lost no time pushing through Parliament the laws that would make him strong. First came the Anti-Sabotage Act, under which anyone suspected of "liberalist" ideas could be confined to his home indefinitely, denied the right to be heard in the press, and isolated from contact with decent citizens. Then came laws empowering his police to hold anyone without charge-first for 90 days and, as of last year, for 180 days. He also gained the right to extend indefinitely the sentences of all political prisoners, and this year was empowered to take "emergency" police measures such as imposing curfews...
...boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
Verwoerd often boasts that the blacks of South Africa are better off than anywhere else on the continent. Economically he is right. What with decent paychecks (minimum daily wage for an unskilled laborer is $2.80) and easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for his dining room, neat school uniforms for his children, and in some cases even a car for himself. Every year countless thousands of blacks from nearby countries flood into the republic looking for work-and the bright lights of the city life...
Changing the Patterns. Negroes themselves have mixed feelings about living alongside whites. "The hell with integration," says former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jimmy Brown, who lives in a largely Negro middle-class Cleveland neighborhood. "Just don't segregate me." But many find decent housing so scarce in Negro neighborhoods that the only choice is to look in white areas, and often they do so with trepidation. A well-to-do Detroit Negro who thought of moving to Grosse Pointe decided against it because "I didn't want garbage on my porch, and I didn't want my children...