Search Details

Word: filth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...American people face moral and social breakdown. The standards that have guided us to greatness over the past two centuries are being systematically subverted by permissive courts and smut peddlers. In the name of freedom, we are being engulfed by filth. The Kick Society is a sick society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...greatest threat to our democracy is moral decadence. And I do not think it represents the majority of the American people. I know many of the members of the Supreme Court, and I don't think they ever meant that their rulings would bring about this avalanche of filth and dirt that is greater than anything in the history of the world. And I think that the Supreme Court is going to have to go back and study this situation and clarify their position. I think censorship is a very dangerous thing. But I think we should have some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BILLY GRAHAM: THE SICKNESS OF SODOM | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...Americans have managed to befoul their natural resources on a scale unparalleled in history. Rivers, lakes and bays have become noxious sewers. The air over the nation's cities is infested with fumes and filth. Open green spaces are devoured by urban sprawl. Yet attempts to halt the despoliation have been, in most cases, limited and local. Last week the battle against pollution moved a long distance toward achieving national urgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Environment: A Matter of Urgency | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

They are: 1. Nuclear incineration for all of us, 2. drowning in the population niagara, or 3. choking in the filth of our own ecxrements-gases, noises, DDT, fall-out and other pollutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FLOWERY SIDE | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

Philadelphia is a town that takes its Squaresville role seriously (". . . and second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia"). When I Am Curious (Yellow) opened last month, Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo turned I Am Furious (Purple) and denounced it as "unadulterated filth." The city council majority leader, George X. Schwartz, went further: "I call on ministers, rabbis and priests to call on their congregations to boycott this film. If this picture is continued, God knows what will come next in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Furious Bellow | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

First | Previous | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | Next | Last