Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, looking for all the world like a split-bearded king, who later in the day gave the best reply to Bryant's question. "There is a moral fiber that is not there today in TV," he said. "Heads of networks are individually decent, sensible and intelligent. But they pursue the wrong for the benefit of profit. Television doesn't represent ourselves to ourselves. It should not dedicate itself to the least common denominator. Every country which did that collapsed. That's my quibble with Communism. It aims everything at the least common denominator...
Totems of Status. The book's hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, is a decent sort who loves his wife, has two teen-aged children and seems affably adjusted to failure. He clerks in a grocery store that he once owned for a Sicilian-born boss named Marullo. However, Ethan is haunted by totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with...
...that he wrote his play because he had something to say to modern man. That is what one charming and intelligent lady told me during an intermission--that here was a play of interesting ideas, about conformity and spontaneity and things like that. I challenged her to name one decent idea in the first two acts, and she hemmed and hawed and hemmed again. With good reason: Viereck has simply messed around with a handful of the last decade's intellectual cliches. He is against materialism, religiosity, and scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol...
...obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that is at least equal to his need for humiliating the whites. His "action troopers" care as little for African lives as Hitler's cared for those of decent Germans, and a worried fellow "revolutionary" who accuses him of taking lessons from Mein Kampf meets an appropriate end. When ineffectual Lieut. Glyn has to stand off the mobs with useless native troops, his one show of Kiplingesque courage gets him into more trouble than his whole history of weakness...
...Huertas is a very fine man, a very decent man," said a spokesman for the Cuban Revolutionary Council. "But he is not a member of our organization...