Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goodman, is no good at all. The present economic organization sets political traps, yes; but beyond this and more important, sheer size creates pervasive, damaging psychological exploitation. In Goodman's view, the contemporary American is forced to make a bad trade--he gives up community, good sex and decent communication for money and status in the "Organized System." In short, Goodman argues that our times have become effectively totalitarian even though our political system...
Then he launched into an essay on the attributes of a President, said solemnly: "The most important are character and integrity. I cast no aspersions on Lyndon Johnson in this regard. But the Republican Party proudly presents a man of principle, an honest man, a decent man, a man of integrity. Barry Goldwater will change his mind when he must. But above all, he is a man of character...
...townspeople are presumably not Mafiosi, but rather--according to a righteous defense by their mayor--decent, humane people incapable even of considering such an offer. Yet the town council, headed by the mayor himself, ultimately revives the death penalty and condemns Miller--with the town's unanimous approval. The moral collapse of the mayor, of the schoolmaster (who seems not to care about the money), of the bishop--these Wicki slights...
...both solidly female and delicately feminine as Mrs. Coffey. And Actor Shaw, known mostly for the stage roles he has played (The Caretaker) and the novels he has written (The Sun Doctor), is Ginger to the life. Brash, frightened, cunning, confused, sentimental, self-indulgent, weak but somehow also fundamentally decent and lovable, Ginger as Shaw sees him is both an individual and a type, an image of the child that is the father (and sometimes the undoing) of every man alive...
...campaign proposals are equally sanguine: "Guarantee of a job or a decent income. $2 minimum wage for all workers. Legalization of rent strikes. Free college education to needy children. Free medical care for all citizens regardless of income...