Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities as quickly as most Americans would like. By dampening Americans' personal expectations, the recession has served as well to moderate their demands on the nation. The public is willing to admit that national priorities must be set and that some desirable goals will require time to attain. The downturn has re-emphasized the virtues of hard work and self-reliance and has brought about a modest revival of the puritan ethic. None of this means that recessions are desirable. The goal of rising prosperity is not only a fundamental part of the American credo; it is absolutely essential...
...when dealing with people, I have encountered a new kind of conundrum. Before, the problem of group identity had been one of adopting roles traditionally presented to me for acquisition. All of them had been imposed by an outside agency, all had taken a certain amount of effort to attain, but all had needed to be reassessed and either put off, or reassumed on a different basis...
...under: bisexuality. Reacting to TIME'S story (Dec. 14) reporting Militant Kate Mil left's public admission that she is "bisexual," nine Women's Lib leaders held a press conference last week in New York City to announce common cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement. Excerpt: "Lesbian is a label used as a psychic weapon to keep women locked into their male...
Introduced to Japan from India by way of China, Zen is a sect of Buddhism. Zen's rejection of the written doctrine differentiates it from the other schools of Buddhism. Studying the sutras is part of the process in attaining Nirvana (Enlightenment) for most Buddhist followers, but the practitioner of Zen seeks to attain enlightenment through meditation and contemplation excluding study of the sacred writings. The Sixth Patriarch Tearing up a sutra (only on exhibit till November 25 due to its fragility) graphically depicts this rejection...
...just another way to express masculinity; they won't get a new world, just more blood. You can't transgress your own moral mandate to attain a popular revolution...