Word: civic
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...kind of spiritual charter by which all Americans can live together. It is "the constitutional consensus whereby the people acquires its identity as a people and the society is endowed with its vital form . . . its sense of purpose as a collectivity organized for action in history." To Murray, the civic consensus is constructed neither of psychological rationalizations nor of economic interests nor of purely pragmatic working hypotheses. "It is an ensemble of substantive truths, a structure of basic knowledge, an order of elementary affirmations that reflect realities inherent in the order of existence...
...build their minority religion in a Protestant land while showing their fellow Americans what all-out patriots they were. Today, an increasing number of well-educated and theologically sophisticated young Catholics are beginning to take part in what Father Murray calls "building the city"-contributing both to the civic machinery and the need for consensus beneath...
Although the plan's first draft laid severe restrictions on Harvard, the proposal presented last night drew Administration approval. In a written statement, Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, termed the present 1943 zoning ordinances obsolete and endorsed the new proposal as adequate...
...calling for moderation. For another, New Orleans' 1,073-man police force, firmly directed by Mayor Morrison and his youthful (37) Chief Joseph Giarrusso, held the violence in check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among New Orleans' civic leaders. Rather than see schools closed, as Davis wanted, lawyers for the school board and for a committee of white parents worked with the N.A.A.C.P. and Judge Wright in the court war against the legislature...
...singing divinely and acting perfectly," said Stage Manager Franco Zeffirelli during intermission. "You are an Olympic team." Zeffirelli's pep talk was directed to the six-member cast of Handel's Alcina, brilliantly presented last week by the Dallas Civic Opera. The occasion was remarkable not only because it again displayed the Dallas Opera to be one of the most enterprising in the country (despite its short, three-week season) or because the production of the all but forgotten Handel work showed a nice Texas feeling for musical antiques. Above all, the evening served to frame the long...