Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious as each of the issues Carter confronted was, no monumental crisis arose against which the newcomer from Georgia could truly define himself. He could not single-mindedly fight the Depression and the Axis as did Franklin Roosevelt. He could not push through a major civil rights act and wage a war on poverty as did Johnson. Few unexpected gestures seemed to offer themselves. The first opening to China gave Nixon an aura of authority in foreign affairs, and the Cuban missile crisis offered John Kennedy the chance to prove his courage...
...located at a discreet remove from South Africa's modern cities. Nor does it prevent a regime from charging black South Africans tuition for a sub-standard education while providing white South Africans with a decent education free of charge. It will never give black South Africans the political, civil, and social rights which the regime systematically denies them...
Second, South Africa is significantly different from the other brutally repressive regimes of the world. No other regime has built a system which denies basic political, civil and social rights to the vast majority of its people merely on the basis of skin color. Third, people in the United States have a special obligation to respond to those black leaders in South Africa who have risked jail, torture, or death to speak out against the regime's monstruously irrational and inhumane politics...
...village still retains a few bastions of tradition. A French village wedding, for example, is nothing to trifle with. It begins in the afternoon with a civil service, immediately followed by a church wedding. After that comes a huge dance party, held either inside or outside, with dancing, drinking, and laughter continuing all night long...
Parks' White House experiences do not begin to fulfill their intended function as a civil rights parable. Her personal life does not contain enough turmoil to sustain even two hours of television time. The First Families, as presented here, are scarcely more fascinating. Too many of them come across as interchangeable ciphers modeled on sitcom couples of the '50s. Most of the Presidents are avuncular prattlers; the First Ladies run the household and often their husbands as well...