Word: civic
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That said, these redemptive activities on the part of unattractive businesses and interest groups--however they may be inspired by lawsuits and public disapproval--do represent bona fide good deeds. Philip Morris, in fact, is nearly as diversified in civic work as it is in its profit centers. It has launched a $100 million-a-year campaign to reshape its image by backing the environment, the arts and summer camps for children with HIV or AIDS. Is it right, one asks, to discount such deeds because one condemns the source? What if the Ku Klux Klan were to institute...
Nader, a lawyer and consumer advocate who made his name in the '60s by exposing American cars as unsafe, urged civic-minded students to get involved in politics...
...Minnesota, where Appropriate Behavior rides high in the saddle and where you hear yourself, a pink person, referred to as "a person of noncolor," and you open the morning paper and find 10,000 words about why we should all appreciate racial and ethnic diversity. It's called civic journalism, and the tone is so gummy and patronizing, you can easily see why Minnesota elected a Governor who once earned his living screeching and frothing and exchanging perspiration with other giant goombahs. He is Mr. None-of-the-Above, a guy who doesn't talk about appreciating diversity or appropriate...
...only are the program's wrangles topical, but they also hew closely to the actual debates in Washington instead of giving us Hollywood's usual cartoon version. That's not out of civic obligation, the showmen insist, it's just that reality is entertaining. "The farther you get away from the truth of those debates, the softer the drama is going to be," says Sorkin, who also created and writes the ABC series Sports Night. For a political edge, he relies on consultants like Caddell and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give...
...deconstructed meanings and relative truths such a lofty goal for a few actors strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage is laughable. But history, at least, is on the side of such a grand design. It is not without reason that theater attendance in ancient Greece was a civic duty, that of all the means of entertainment and expression in Renaissance England theater was the most closely censored by the crown (and that theatrical censorship was the last form of censorship to be lifted in England, not officially ending until the 1960s), that social agitators from Voltaire to Vaclav...