As Herman's report suggests, and as the experience of country after country has shown, the truest division, in Nicaragua as elsewhere, is not between right and left but between decency and cruelty--between those who can learn from violence and suffering and those who cannot.
WHERE Shaftesbury Avenue crosses Charing Cross Road, in the heart of London's West End, unwitting passers-by will soon be crossing the line between decency and depravity.
Part of realism is showing that you have a clear grasp of reality — that you know the difference between decency and barbarism when both are on display for the whole world to see.
On the other, the relationship between human decency and owning a lounge suit is quite often inversely proportional.
The US led a crusade into Afghanistan, billed as the battle between democratic decency and demagogic evil.
While the F.C.C. does not offer clear guidelines about what is and is not permissible on the airwaves, the agency does permit looser interpretations of its decency standards for broadcasts between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The Romans in Britain case has come to be regarded as a stand-off between filth and decency, but the real battle-line was Ireland v Christ.
In defence of decency It is this cusp between the personal and the political that is at the heart of the film and its comedy.
But public opinion was shifted, durably, by the contrast between the Lawrences' decency, the viciousness of their son's killers, and the casual incompetence with which police handled the death of a young black man in 1993 London.
However the film is received by the critics – acting skills will not get top mention – Act of Valor will be remembered for shredding a decades-old understanding about the making of war movies: that while directors are rarely averse to getting into bed with the US military there has always been at least a small bolster between them, for decency.
