Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge Washington's leadership and to give democracy a meaning in the twentieth century that conforms to that of Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration of Independence. In 1905 he founded the Niagara Movement and in the following...
...lifted his hands, murmured a prayer (he explained later) "that God give him the best place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf-Astoria reception he hammily bussed the hand of an old friend, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. At a TV session, he was asked if he kisses babies when he goes politicking. His reply...
Within the span of two brief seasons, Chicago's Lyric Theater, a nonprofit corporation organized to present grand opera, managed to restore much of the splendor and prestige of the old days of Mary Garden and Samuel Insull. Night after winter night, the huge Civic Opera House was sibilant with mink and sables while the stage vibrated under the temperaments of the highest-priced stars in the operatic firmament, e.g., Maria Meneghini Callas, Renata Tebaldi. Opera lovers began to think that the Lyric group might succeed where others had failed...
Like his founder-father, who gave millions to bring culture and civic beauty to Akron, Harvey Jr. believes that U.S. business must spend abroad for civic improvements, in addition to the cost of doing business. Firestone has spent millions in Liberia for roads, schools, hospitals, medical-research centers and power plants, once even lent the country $2,500,000 to help get its finances squared away. Says he: "It is only logical for a corporation to realize that the privilege of doing business carries with it an equal responsibility for the overall good of the community...
...whether white and Negro students would be integrated under the model system. Said a Rockefeller representative: "No one in his right mind would set out to build two separate systems under the present laws." At week's end, with Morrilton's city council, Chamber of Commerce and civic groups favoring the plan, it looked as if Morrilton would accept Winthrop Rockefeller's offer...