Word: decentered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...makes such knifing particularly unpleasant is its appearance at the end of what appeared to be a renascence in official thinking. Last year, we could not blame anyone for suggesting that the House-masters were gradually sloughing off their social monasticism. Whispers crept about the college that a half-decent set of rules might appear from the bowels of University Hall, and the Housemasters seemed to smile benignly about...
...might drive the docile majority of the Kikuyu tribe into the hands of Mau Mau fanatics. In the House of Commons, bluff Jim Griffiths, the former Labor government's able Colonial Secretary, urgently warned: "We are in danger of converting what began as a struggle of all the decent, moderate, loyal people-Africans, Asians and Europeans-against the Mau Mau into a Black-White struggle...
...Holy Name Society, which Hickey said is often aided in its efforts by other organizations, bases its action on reports from the National Organization for Decent Literature. It is on the watch, only for obscenity, Hickey said, and is not concerned with material which might prove objectionable on racial or religious grounds...
Getting at the problem in a different way, Dwight S. Strong, executive director of the revamped Watch and Ward society, has gone on record as feeling that publishers should indeed set and maintain their own standards of decency, providing these are decent enough...
...With decent rites at length is laid...