Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every passer-by. Davis describes a bull-session at Andover where one of his classmates screamed at him "God, what an asshole." "Tears," said Davis, "welled up in my eyes. His words struck me in the heart; and I know how they were true. That was about the first decent human response I had received in my whole prep-school career." If Davis did not find obscene frankness at Yale, he just went to the wrong school. There are plenty of people here who, if his conversation annoyed them, would address him in similar terms...
...Enemies of peace and foes of freedom still move in the world," Johnson told his short, slim visitor by way of greeting. "But their chance to prevail is a much lesser chance now because of the response that was made in Korea by those United Nations which showed a decent respect for the values-as well as the opinions-of all mankind. We welcome this strength that your land offers now to the defense of freedom, not only in Korea but in Viet Nam as well...
Simple Pleasures. To a girl who never had anything, least of all expectations, the beginning of life can be new underwear, decent meals and the hope of one day being able to get and hold a job. Many of the girls who came to Cleveland had been frightened by the prospect of their first plane ride (three others going to another center turned back rather than fly). Most feared that they were getting into a kind of reform school. Actually, they will get the regimentation of an old-fashioned girls' boarding school, with supervised general and vocational education, plus...
...York, hardly a decent jazz club has survived. The two most exciting experimental jazz places in the Village--The Speakeasy and The Jazz Gallery--have disappeared. The Village Gate often has folk music. And even Birdland featured canned music for a while...
This earnest, hopeless, engaging goofiness is the best of Kerouac, and it runs through the novel. His writing is successful because it is a sly parody of his boyishness. His books are a tall tale told at his own expense, and always at a decent remove from the truth. Duluoz-Kerouac fornicates, hops a freight, smokes pot, drinks a quart, sleeps unscathed. He is a bumbling Paul Bunyan working with blue bull...