Word: decently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; the subtle poison of racist thinking by 'decent' men who deny that they are racists; the societal limbo into which so many young black men have been driven ever since slavery; ambiguous justice in the courts; the devastation in both black and white lives that follows violence...
DEAD END SCHOOL, by Robert Coles (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95). The well-known author of Children of Crisis here tells the story of one Negro family's fight to have their children educated in a decent school...
...Angelo's gold-plated chain bikini, which depends for modesty on two layers of chains; hopefully, even if the outer layer parts, the under layer of smaller baby chains will provide a veil. Rustproof, the suit can be worn swimming. "Chain on the nude body can be very decent," insists Sant' Angelo, who gives the hippies credit for putting the chain back into fashion. Says the Manhattan designer with approbation: "They took the symbol of bondage and transformed it into a symbol of emancipation...
...Negro parents of limited education demand a say in the running of ghetto schools. Articulate undergraduates-and not a few faculty members-insist on a meaningful vote in the governance of their own institutions. The poor who march on Washington have a more basic desire: the means for a decent existence. Traditionally passive public servants no longer have qualms about shutting down school or sanitation or transportation systems. Agricultural laborers agitate for the union rights and reasonable wages won long ago by other workers. The antidraft movement has already prompted serious proposals for a more equitable Selective Service process...
...etiquette, Leaders of the town-and-country set. They learned to adapt themselves to wearing spats, Frock-coats, striped morning-trousers, bowler hats, They learned to give high teas, to ride to hounds, To keep within the proper meets and bounds, Were public-spirited, would patronize, Most lavishly, the decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere along the line The name was changed. What's wrong with that? That's fine, They earned the privilege. Give them all their due, But-weren't they still the least bit parvenu, The least bit not quite Mayflower, F.F.V., A trace this...