Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...
...There is nothing to tune back to each week," reported Walker, and the Paar option was dropped. Today, says Jack, he is just as glad that he did not play along with the phony character bit: "I have no character except what I am-complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable and lonely...
...confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they must take. No one can read it without briefly sharing the sickness...
Throughout our history one of the great strengths of the United States in the world has been that it could depend upon the support that lies in the decent opinion of mankind. Today we are plainly in danger of losing esteem...
...Paradise. Two doctors, a man and a woman, arrive in the Bavarian Alps on a skiing holiday. They are English and lovers, and each has lost a former love during the war. Both are generous, both are hopeful that the time of Hitler was a decent nation's inexplicable nightmare-but they run into enough of the Nazi mentality to live a nightmare of their own. Author Lessing's tale is too carefully loaded to be fully convincing or fair. But it has enough truth and strength to be a chilling literary experience...