Word: civics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national advertising campaign of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges offers some hope, because for the first time colleges are reaching out to enlist help from those outside their campus: parents, civic leaders and the general public. The support of these groups is a must if the effort is to succeed...
...York Observer, a metropolitan weekly that is to the disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic-mindedness was as welcome as a vice cop at a bachelor party...
Brown says working with HLS faculty members, such as University Professor Frank I. Michaelman, introduced him and Khazei to the idea of civic republicanism, a theory about creating civic virtue among all people, not just the elite...
Winters said his online publication Web site, home of the Cambridge Civic Journal, is currently the only site which has links to candidates. He added that he publishes the links "exclusively as a public service...
Religion can be a wonderful force in civic life. In a charitable organization, it can motivate people to give of themselves far beyond the call of duty. But when society, as Bush put it, "sees a need to help people," it should not look first to religious groups to provide the answer, especially when the problem is a social and not a spiritual one. The social compact should not be sub-contracted...