Word: upright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Derision. A tobacco tycoon (the late Edward Everett Horton) offers $25 million to any American city whose inhabitants can quit smoking for 30 days, on the plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when a Pentagon colonel promises the town...
...movement is not romantic. It does not look forward to apocalypse. It accepts the necessity of a morally upright police force, and it accepts the necessity and usefulness of science and technology. It refuses, however, to allow the human spirit to be subjugated to these powers. It demands only that each and every human being be allowed to realize what is his birthright as a man: full consciousness...
...where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then...
MANY Chicagoans talk of the suburb of Evanston as the straitlaced capital of the North Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes...
...Unfortunately, in the midst of the celebrating that night we did rather destroy the hotel. I spent the better part of the night running around trying to keep the hotel in one piece, putting exit signs back on the wall, returning Coke machines to their normal upright position, and getting players back to their rooms." the manager added...