Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final report, Bender spoke out against "academic elitism," calling for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent, uncomplicated human beings . . . to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
...untill about four months ago, only Long Island had managed to escape this national disaster. Garden City, N.Y., bastion of decent food, boasted a chain of three hamburg stands (all of which, to boost the appeal of their product, were forced to serve their standard 1/4-pound burgers by means of model electric trains...
...Mark (Continental). Pale from jail, a young Canadian accountant takes a job in a small city in the British Midlands. What was his crime? The movie makers let the moviegoer wonder, and while he wonders they invite him to like the young man. He is serious, decent, good at his job, but obviously afraid of something-something in himself? He reports to his parole officer, the psychiatrist (Rod Steiger) who treated him for three years in prison. As they talk, the past cracks open like a troubled tomb and horribly yields up its specters...
...intelligent without necessarily being 'intellectuals' but whose distinction is primarily other--goodness or loyalty or energy or perceptivity or a passionate concern of some sort. We might even have a few who aren't particularly distinguished in anyways, who aren't brilliant leaders, who are just plain, ordinary decent, uncomplicated human being like so many faculty sons and Harvard sons, to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
Finally, Bender made a plea for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent uncomplicated human beings ... to provide a human scale in this community of superman...