Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Displaying its customary sagacity, the public stayed away, and Hairy Men closed after four performances. What with all the practice the actors got folding and unfolding, making and unmaking beds, they could probably earn a decent living running a sleepshop...
Then just when decent citizens were hailing me as savior...
...would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more probably with it, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books." Thus, in the '20s, did Humorist Stephen Leacock define a university, and it may be a blessing that he is not alive to see how bustle has replaced his leisurely academe in Canadian higher education...
Lately, a distinct reaction against permissiveness has begun. Pressure is increasing from citizens' organizations such as the Roman Catholic National Organization for Decent Literature, the Protestant Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications, and Citizens for Decent Literature, a nonsectarian organization that now has 300 chapters around the country. These groups are shrill, sincere, and sometimes self-defeating. When a Chicago court ruled three years ago that Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer could be sold locally, the C.D.L. flooded Chicago with excerpts of outrageous passages in the book, undoubtedly giving them wider circulation than they had ever...
...conscious speaker. His tenor delivery of Galway Bay at public dinners sets Irish eyes to smiling; his show tunes at bar mitzvahs please Jewish friends. A joiner, he is an American Legionnaire, an executive board member of the National Council of Catholic Men, and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature. A sign on his desk reads...