Word: civics
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...demonstrated last year, even a breath of dissent produces a gesture of reform. Every so often a Black could be elected to a board of directors or an alum might ask himself if the old school doesn't have a point when it urges a new conception of civic responsibility. Not much for not much--but better than nothing. Besides, the alternative to a politics of the better is a politics of the worst; and who has the right to tell the victims of the world that they should endure a clearly evil existence until we present them with...
...fact that an organization, carrying out its primary purpose, advocates social or civic changes or presents opinion on controversial issues with the intention of molding public opinion or creating public sentiment to an acceptance of its views does not preclude such organization from qualifying under section 501(c)(3) so long as it is not (an organization engaged in legislative or electoral activities...
...buff-colored civic-center modern Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, where the trial of Angela Davis is being held, is protected by a couple of recently erected 12-ft. chain-link fences, with gates guarded by about a dozen armed deputies. At 6 each morning, quiet, well-behaved crowds of young blacks, Chicanos and whites begin gathering at the gates to vie for the 42 courtroom seats reserved for the public. Angela Davis, her sister Fania Jordan and the defendant's team of three lawyers arrive shortly before 9, from a secret place where Miss Davis has been staying...
Sense of Unease. Muckraking seems to be a cyclical phenomenon. Its classic period came between 1902 and 1912, when Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed civic corruption and business chicanery. It diminished in the 1920s, revived briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation...
...candidates for the municipal elections on the West Bank that Israel has ordered to take place March 28. Hussein mentioned the elections only in passing, but it was obvious that he hoped to influence them by making his proposals an issue. Presumably he has. In a final spurt of civic consciousness, 141 Arab candidates entered the elections, which some West Bank leaders had initially wanted their people to boycott...