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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACSR has been wrestling with the problem of apartheid for nearly two years now and we are, it is true, only now getting to the point of knowing what to ask of the firms. Let us remember that our own Civil Rights Act of 1964 was preceded by years of intensive study on the part of the Civil Rights Commission and various congressional committees. Each of these bodies had far greater resources than we do and faced a problem that was simpler, if only by virtue of the fact that federal legislation can override law and behavior but Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Withdrawal | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

What does a swastika mean? During World War II, it meant the mechanical annihilation of an entire race of human beings--an act motivated by the highest form of vanity. But on the t-shirt of Sid Vicious, who knows what it means? It is shocking, stomach-twisting, and if nothing else, it is some kind of self-glorification that Vicious and his followers need...the self-glorification he saw in old war documentaries when he was in grammar school, ripping out toilet seats during recess...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...Correspondent John Tompkins, in an observation that no Exxon chief would have made as recently as five years ago: "I accept that we are in some sense 'different' and that Government is going to have an increasing role in setting the parameters. Our problem is in getting it to act realistically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...must somehow be part of God's plan. If the two religions both derive from the same God, says Lapide, Christianity could not be founded upon a lie. And since it "stands or falls" with the Easter story, Lapide concludes that the church was "born out of an act of the will of God, which all the New Testament authors call the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Resurrection? | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...characters declare their problems bluntly to each other, instead of living them out or summing them up in an act. Bergman's characters can get away with stating their naked feelings because he elevates their conversations from daily life. When Allen uses these declarations to comic effect they work, but as serious character-building they don't. Diane Keaton's character--a pushy writer, neurotic like everyone else in the movie--declares, 'I come from Philadelphia, and I believe in God!" and Allen has scored both a laugh and and illumination of her character. She blurts, "I'm beautiful...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Voices from the Couch | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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