Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaching laws, the 1966 civil rights bill seemed something of an anticlimax. It sought to right some blatant wrongs, most notably discrimination in the selection of juries and the sale or rental of housing. Yet, compared with the earlier legislation, the open-housing provision literally came a lot closer to home. The sad, even outrageous, but inescapable fact seems to be that the white is not yet acclimatized to the notion of having a Negro for a neighbor. So the bill last week became the first civil rights measure to be killed by Congress in nine years...
...place in American sensibilities. The old puritanical tone is virtually gone. The first principle of the old code stated that "no picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it." The new code leads off with the suggestion that movies should "keep in closer harmony with the mores, the culture, the moral sense and the expectation of our society...
...implications for the Library complex, and specifically for the Institute of Politics. Ever since the President's death, the Kennedy family has sought to create a "living memorial," not just a monument--thus the emphasis on the Institute, which is supposed to bring the worlds of scholarship and politics closer together. But the Institute, for all the publicity, cannot stand on its own; at best, its existence merely constitutes a good excuse to do such things as bring senior government administrators and politicians (called 'associates') into Cambridge, or create a debating union modeled after Oxford...
Delano, California, is 30 miles and 30 years away from the run-down migrant labor camp described in John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." It seems a lot closer...
...automatic re-entry system that the astronauts sarcastically call "the chimp mode." Controlled by Gemini's onboard computer, it fired the spacecraft's thrusters at the proper time to correct its attitude and direction. Its value was evident. For it guided the relaxed astronauts to a splashdown closer to the recovery carrier than ever before in the U.S. manned spaceflight program...