Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Published in the CRIMSON, it was to say the least, the height of poor taste. Admittedly, a liberal paper tells both sides of all important issues; however, a wallowing in vulgarities is certainly beyond the scope of a Harvard publication. Ideas worth being heard, it seems, are worthy of decent expression. Moreover, it has been years since such vile language has appeared even in most of the newspapers of the deep South. However, ambivalence neither justifies the vulgarities nor vindicates the author. Yet it was a good device for erecting the old ghost of racism...
...Every drugstore and five & ten, I don't care where, can sell radios and TVs at cut-rate prices. They don't have to worry about service. If something breaks down, they don't fix it. The people come to me. If I charge a decent price because I can do a good job, they get sore...
There are many honest and decent people of the South who feel only horror in witnessing the activities of the governor of Arkansas and other rabblerousers who deny the freedoms which our nation ostensibly seeks to advance...
...like to admit it. You get a combination almost of cynicism and idealism at the same time. Not many want to be heroes, because they don't believe in heroes. But in quieter ways they are very concerned about being in a position to create a decent community. One can't even get them to admit to themselves that they have patriotic ideas; yet they want to play a meaningful part in building the world and in working for peace...
...Counter Reformation succeeded in its principal purposes. Men continued, in Catholic as much as in Protestant countries, to lie and steal, seduce maidens and sell offices, kill and make war. But the morals of the clergy improved, and the wild freedom of Renaissance Italy was tamed to a decent conformity with the pretensions of mankind . . . All in all, it was an astonishing recovery, one of the most brilliant products of the Protestant Reformation...