Word: acte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to present a good appearance in behavior and dress," Clyburn says. "Behavior follows along with clothing. You act like more of a lady when you look like one," she adds. Because ORU students are trying to exemplify the life of Christ, they maintain good grooming and modest behavior as part of their witness, she explains...
Like its counterparts abroad, the South African scholarship program aims at the creation of a Western-educated and oriented African and Colored elite which can act as a "third force" between die-hard Afrikaaners and the forces of national liberation led by the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress. The U.S. government and business interests have wanted for a long time to reform apartheid just enough to stabilize it and maintain the enormous superprofits extracted from the black South African workforce. Harvard's plan plays right into this neo-colonialist strategy, by supplying partners with black forces...
...themselves. But ideas only truly take hold in a society if they represent a class or interest. We are not mobilized by ideas alone. The competition between intellectual magazines has little effect on general public opinion. Podhoretz' analysis underplays the spontaneity of political actions. If, as he submits, we act only when gripped by ideas, how can he explain the riots by blacks in Watts in the summer of 1965? His view of the 1960s denies both social and economic factors, and accounts unsatisfactorily for political eruptions. Any celebration of intellectuals must remain within bounds. When Podhoretz exaggerates the efficacy...
Movie music should ideally act as an 'emotional constipator or cathartic" to enhance the creation and release of dramatic tension, John Green '28, former director of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), last night told an audience of about 50 people...
...representatives of the Screen Actors Guild, Gray Panthers, Hare Krishnas, prolifers, and civilian peacekeepers, wound its way out of the district and proceeded to nearby Bryant Park for a rally. Heartened by music from a women's jazz group and performers from the Broadway shows "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road" and "Gemini," the crowd settled down to consider a question posed by poet Robin Morgan: "How come the women's movement woke up to the issue of pornography...