Word: civics
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...images of herself as ambassadress or dreams of glory as she takes over the presidency of General Motors." Instead, advised Mrs. Johnson, a woman should be "preeminently a woman, a wife, a mother, a thinking citizen. If you can achieve the precious balance between woman's domestic and civic life, you can do more for zest and sanity in our society than by any other achievement...
...Salis' book begins with the poet in the summer of 1919, after "five impenetrable, sterile years, interrupting all genuine life." War was intolerable for a man who found civic peace too much. He had been drafted into the German army, but the minute the war ended he fled to Switzerland, "as animals go when the closed season is over...
...Switzerland he attained a sort of civic asylum. Patronesses supplied chalets and chateaux. He completed the Duino Elegies, begun at Princess Thurn and Taxis' castle on the Adriatic near Trieste; she celebrated the event with a ceremonious visit, during which the poet recited the whole work...
...practiced law for more than six years in a $24.30-a-month flat in Spanish Harlem. In My People, he writes with vivid feeling and detail about what it means to exist in Manhattan's Puerto Rican ghetto, and how the slums are preserved by sloth, corruption and civic indifference-Mayor Robert Wagner, he notes, is a man of "extravagant apathy...
Employees take company courses in politeness and courtesy, are constantly reminded that they and their customers have no fewer than 10 billion conversations a year. A.T.&T. executives are encouraged to lead civic-uplift drives, and to join many public service groups. Once they have joined, they frequently volunteer to make speeches about A.T. & T. or show company films, preaching such slogans as "The Voice with a Smile Is Still Behind Your Dial" and "Whatever the Future Brings, It's Still People Talking...