Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When their turn came, the Goldmarks' lawyers maintained that the kind of charges made by the defendants could "drive from office every decent man who ever sought it." Attorney William Dwyer found the defense "one long tortured attack against Mrs. Goldmark. They've said every conceivable dirty thing about that woman they could say without being held in contempt of court...
...Avilion. Bachelor White confessed recently that he could "count only seven happy years" in all his life. Yet he always believed with Arthur that mankind is "on the whole more decent than beastly." After a two-month, coast-to-coast U.S. lecture tour in late 1963, he spoke with keen pleasure of the kindliness he encountered in America. When he left Manhattan last month for a Mediterranean cruise, he planned to write a book about his U.S. odyssey, hoped soon to complete a novel about Tristan and Isolde. But for White, as for his once and future king...
...spaces the fun and games. In its whole intention, however, The Easy Life is clearly more tragic than comic. The party is over before the picture is over. The spectator lifts the last glass of champagne to his lips and finds it full of blood: the blood of a decent, bewildered boy who does not understand that every man must live his own life, no matter how dull it may sometimes seem; who does not understand that the easy life is essentially an easy death...
...free run of Elsinore: whenever Hamlet delivers a soliloquy, he takes refuge in a large hole in the center of the stage, getting in up to his knees, waist or neck, depending on the psychographic depth of the moment. "Nobody loves me or wants me to make a decent career in this lousy court," he whines...
...quick images, Maximov slashes a scene in place. His hero, hating the smug, virtuous world, rejects the sympathy of the few kind and decent people he encounters because it is rage itself, he comes to understand, that keeps him alive. "I defend myself against them," he thinks in a rare moment of self-understanding, "with all the fury accumulated in years of wolfish life." Eventually he gives in and accepts society, because he realizes that, bad as it is, it is redeemed by individual acts of humanity...