Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to take them seriously. Lyndon Johnson put the squeeze on the negotiators, reminded them that both sides would suffer black eyes if a strike were called while "our boys are still fighting in South Viet Nam." He telephoned Abel and Cooper separately, told each that he wanted "a decent and responsible settlement." Said Abel: "We too have a responsibility-to our membership." At week's end, the President named Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Under Secretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins as special mediators to seek a last-minute settlement...
...such standards, Petrovka 38 is a veritable revelation. The story describes two murders, daring daylight holdups, drug addiction, even a soupçon of illicit sex. In permitting the book's publication abroad, Soviet authorities may have been disarmed by its moral: Russia's GUMshoes are efficient, decent. and humane. After deciding that one of the outlaws, a 17-year-old poet, is guilty of nothing more than an immoderate dose of vodka, they talk the public prosecutor's office into letting him go. Relentlessly methodical police routine brings the other culprits to book...
Surely the duration will extend beyond Lyndon Johnson's presidency and many , more to come. Through legal action, the road from shantytown to voting booth has been cleared. Now Los Angeles has shown that the road from deprivation to decent schools, jobs and homes, may be even more tortuous and lonely. There are no short cuts, and in the aftermath of violence the people of Watts may begin to grasp that fact. Many did. "I don't want anyone to give me anything," said a Negro laborer. "All I want...
...play Dutchman, Negro Writer LeRoi Jones pits a decent, unbelligerent young Negro against a dirty-mouthed white girl, symbol of decadence and cruelty, and lets her kill him. In Jones's The Toilet, eight Negroes abuse a white boy and then beat him up. During open-end discussions at Manhattan's Village Vanguard last winter, Jones put an extra racial twist on the death of two white civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. "Those boys were just artifacts−artifacts, man. They weren't real. I won't mourn them. I have...
...Property. Under English law, which has filtered through the colonies to the states, a man's body is not his own property to "devise and bequeath." Nor is it technically the property of surviving kin, but since they are responsible for giving it decent burial, they have won the right to decide what shall not be done with a relative's body...