Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They often have not operated in accord with goals made explicit by Congress--to provide "a decent home, and a suitable living environment for all," and have sometimes even aggravated the housing problems of the poor...
Seemingly, Anderson has lost sight of his own line of argument somewhere between these statistics and the gross generalizations which follow, for he never shows whether private enterprise could succeed where public enterprise has failed--in providing decent homes for all. In what kinds of housing have these impressive improvements in quality been achieved? Has unaided private enterprise been eager to build in slum neighborhoods? And if not, is there any evidence that private builders left to themselves would ever attack these hard-core housing problems...
...escape from this maze by getting an appellate court to rule (as the Supreme Court did in 1962 regarding narcotics addicts) that it is unconstitutional to jail victims of a "disease' over which they have no control. As Hutt sees it, this might force Congres; to provide decent treatment facilities Unhappily for Hutt, Washington's Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King believes that Congress will fail to act. If Hutt wins, says King, drunks "will be turned out on the streets, and the public, including women and children, will be exposed to them and their indecencies...
...Harvard, according to the guide, the student body includes both brillant minds and "just good, ordinary, decent human beings." Princeton, however, "unlike some other leading institutions.. is reluctant to take a chance on those who display unusually creative talents in a single area, no matter how brillant they...
...fact, it is the few pieces like Miss Whitman's which make the Advocate easily worth a quarter. But unless more writers resist the seductions of flaccid free verse and tediously flat prose the Advocate will only be a decent buy, not a bargain...