Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban center creates inescapable tensions but its relations with the community had further deteriorated because of its apparent indifference to the needs and aspirations of its poorer neighbors. The handling of the gymnasium controversy thus came, even somewhat unfairly, to epitomize the conflict between the spirit of the civil rights movement and the attack on poverty, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ways of an ancien regime. Energetic and idealistic students, alienated from the older generation by an extraordinarily wide gulf in manners and interests and offended by the plethora of human suffering, were drawn...
Some of the charges levied against Fortas--his alleged involvement with a Communist-dominated legal group in the early thirties, his vote to exclude a few cheap skin flicks from classification as hard-core pornography, and the contention that his booklet on civil disobedience "condoned lawlessness"--were clearly distorted, irrelevant, and fundamentally stupid. And Senator J. Strom Thurmond's infantile harassment of Justice Fortas during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings did nothing to enhance the dignity of either the senate or the court...
During the later part of his term, and particularly during the three years of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, Thornberry began to establish a reputation for himself as a "Southern moderate." He had voted against most of the watered-down civil rights measures of the fifties, and tended to vote with the "conservative coalition" more often than not during that time, but he avoided the rabid racism and extreme conservatism of the deep Southern block...
...member of the key House Rules Committee under Kennedy, he enhanced his reputation as a moderate by being the only Southerner to side regularly with the administration. But he never declared himself in favor of the most important measure to come before the Committee during his tenure--the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. As administration representatives diplomatically put it, they hoped they wouldn't have to depend on the votes of Thornberry or any of the other "Southern moderates...
...judge on the Fifth Circuit Court, Thornberry retained his image as a "moderate" largely by contrast with his peers. When Johnson appointed him to the Fifth Circuit, in 1965, he also appointed former Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman, who drew all the fire from civil rights organizations for being a racist, and for having supported segregationist legislation during his term as Governor. Thornberry, in the shadows then as he has been this year, was quietly accepted...