Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem-"For you always have the poor with you"-is usually quoted out of context and does not necessarily imply that poverty is inevitable. St. Thomas Aquinas concluded that natural law gives every man the right to enough of the world's resources to lead a decent life. Nevertheless, the traditional Christian attitude equates poverty with saintliness, deeply distrusts money and proclaims, "Blessed are you poor...
Television's excuse is the Nielson rating system. That's why the only two decent shows on the tube, "Man From Uncle" and "Slattery's People", are scheduled at the same time slot. What is Harvard's excuse. Once again the catalogue programmers have put all the big drawers on at 12 noon...
...Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges is vaguely aware that they are right, but what...
...horror film, then drop off to sleep, leaving instructions with Bettina to wake him instantly if he snored. Actually, writes Bettina in Bettina, a history of her five years with the late Aly, the cinema was one of the few places where Aly could get a decent sleep. He was a compulsive gambler, a lover of outhouse humor and intricately vulgar practical jokes. "But never once did he fail to treat me as a wife," says Bettina of Aly, who never did get around to marrying...
...this season, without even a feeler to Vegas, Williams has whirled past more fairgrounds than Astronauts Cooper and Conrad ever did. In fact, the state-fair circuit has become an unpublicized gold mine of show business. Not for everyone. The star of the fair circuit must be folksy, decent, no-putting-on-airs, and never, never step out of character. Williams is the circuit's ideal singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford its ideal comic, Liberace its favorite pianist, Lawrence Welk its ideal bandleader...