Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only organization that even remotely rivals N.E.A. is the 60,000-member American Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. It is small because many teachers dislike the blue-collar union label; unlike N.E.A., it does no educational research. But A.F.T. does advocate collective bargaining and the right to strike...
...religious service has been accompanied by a formality in clerical dress. In the New England Council of the United Churches of Christ, whose ministers a few years ago seldom wore anything more ecclesiastical than a discreet dark suit, more than half of the ministers now use a clerical collar. In 1941, according to a survey conducted by the United Lutheran Church in America, 1.500 out of 2,000 of their ministers wore either a simple black robe or no robe at all at services; now two-thirds of them dress in either cassock, surplice and stole or full Eucharistic vestments...
There are still crusades in the press but the muckraker's tone of high-collar righteousness seems out of key in today's more complicated world, in which Americans have found that they have more to worry about, from Berlin to Laos, than civic corruption or spoiled meat. Laws and the nation's conscience have eliminated most of the outrages the muckrakers attacked. But the Weinbergs' book is a readable reminder of the days when a handful of serious scolds could make a whole nation feel as embarrassed as a small boy caught with dirt behind...
...warblers of popular singing-the Fabians, the Bobby Darins, the Frankie Avalons-are as interchangeable as bottle caps. Like the others, Paul Anka was a veteran performer before he was 20. His hair is a studied sculpture in coal tar and astrakhan. His voice sounds as if his shirt collar is too tight. But Anka is also a songwriter and the tunes that have made...
...effective city government; in the Wagner-Lefkowitz debate they neither expected nor got a serious discussion of municipal problems. But if the purpose of the debate was to project personalities, it was a considerable success. Manhattan-born Bob Wagner came across as a bland, coolly confident politician of the collar...