Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defiant, heroic pose and staged a whirlwind week of speeches, each more frenzied and more sinister than the last. The climax was a massive demagogic stunt: an invitation to all Cubans (who have no representative government) to take part in a "People's Assembly" in Havana's Civic Plaza, where, in the style of the French revolutionary terror, they could roar approval of proposed new measures...
...weeks ago, to end lunch counter sit-ins, white and Negro Houston civic leaders thrashed out an agreement desegregating the city's lunch counters. So that there would be no flare-ups when the change took place, all three Houston papers delayed publication of the news for one week, then buried it on the back pages. Radio and TV stations also went along with the news blackout. "The stores wanted to integrate the lunch counters at the least possible cost,'' explained one Houston editor lamely. "They wanted to lose neither Negro nor white business. They felt that...
...over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown Norfolk remains a warren of grimy apartments and noisy taverns, but urban renewal projects have swept other parts to make way for public housing, hospitals, and a $15 million civic center...
Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
...Jews often carry something identifying their faith so that the right kind of clergyman can be summoned in an emergency. There is no reason why Protestants should not have the same. Then, too, Protestants are frequently called upon to stand up and be identified in our social life, civic world or political life...