Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such proposals--and none are yet anything more than tentative-reflect the collapse of the philosophy of General Education. The Redbook program had a coherence suggested by its title. By General Education in a Free Society it meant education for citizenship, or leadership, as the case might be. It accordingly stressed those goals which most fit customary ideas about the operation of democracy. Since constitutional democracy is based on acceptance of common principle and traditions, Gen Ed was designed to incucate a sense of Western values and heritage. Since democracy operates through discussion, Gen Ed was asked to develop...
...proud to claim common citizenship with the U.S. farmer. His referendum vote clearly demonstrated that the national backbone, though morally soft and pliable in most sectors, stands straight and strong in the agricultural area. We sorely need this "old frontier" independence; God forbid that the New Frontier plow it under...
...often seem more intent on destroying each other than the Portuguese. The Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) is led by smooth. Sorbonne-educated Mario Pinto de Andrade, 34, a mulatto whose backing comes mainly from other assimilados, the educated half-castes who have long had full Portuguese citizenship; to widen its appeal, however, an Angolan black, Poet Agostinho Neto, was recently made M.P.L.A.'s nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced as a Communist, is an astute politician and an able organizer. He has built a nationwide following among...
...falls to the educated man, said Kennedy, to assume the greater obligations of citizenship-for the pursuit of learning, to serve the public and to uphold the law. The educated man "knows that for one man to defy a law or court order he does not like is to invite others to defy those which they do not like, leading to a breakdown of all justice and order. He knows, too, that every fellow man is entitled to be regarded with decency and treated with dignity. Any educated citizen who seeks to subvert the law, to suppress freedom...
...special ceremony, the town of Columbus, N. Mex., bestowed honorary citizenship on Mrs. Pancho Villa, 72, now known as Luz Corral and widely acknowledged as the first wife of the oft-married Mexican revolutionary. After a raid by Villa in 1916, Columbus counted 16 dead. But now, said New Mexico's Governor Jack Campbell, "the bitterness of long ago can be forgotten.'' Tearfully, Mrs. Villa accepted a scroll, responding in turn with gifts to the Pancho Villa Museum of Columbus: her husband's field telephone and a $1,000,000 bundle of currency issued...