Word: decently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not tolerate violence!" Somehow Nixon manages to sound more forceful and specific in emphasizing the need for law and order than in pleading for social justice. The targets of his acceptance speech are the "forgotten Americans, the non-shouters, the non-demonstrators." They are "good people. They're decent people. They work and they save and they pay their taxes and they care...
Robert Kennedy was once asked to name the most decent man in the Senate. "George McGovern," he replied. "He's the only decent man in the Senate." South Dakota's junior Senator felt much the same way about Kennedy. The two were close friends for years, from the time that McGovern took over John F. Kennedy's Food for Peace program...
Black Power, as Young envisages it, is the power of Negroes to choose: to live in harmony with whites, to live among themselves amid decent surroundings-even to exclude whites if they wish. But Young ruled out black apartheid. "We do not intend to do the racists' job for them by accepting segregation," he insisted, "and we plan no one-way trips to Africa." As a result, Young told 1,800 Urban Leaguers gathered in New Orleans for their 58th annual convention, he is launching a new thrust for what he termed Soul or Ghetto Power, increasing sevenfold...
...want more than a welter of new commitments, more than a mind-boggling array of plans to finance urban redevelopment. Rather, they want precisely what Lyndon Johnson has not given them--a kind of rhetorical coherence, a feeling that if the problems are tough, at last someone has a decent idea of how to start dealing with them. Americans--students and black militants aside--are too smart to demand immediate solutions. They merely want something said and done that holds promise and makes sense...
Were he a better film-maker, someone with a decent sense of camera and editing, we could call him an auteur and grant him his own strange bag, but as it stands now, all we can do is wonder where on earth the man's mind...