Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Four consistently droll, frequently hilarious, and occasionally touching playlets by Robert Anderson, who plays his variations on a theme of sex-as an element of shock in art, a waning force in middle age, a matter of concern to parents, a misty memory of the aged...
...perhaps support the U.S. stand without making themselves heard. The war often reduces the divided Protestant witness to hand-wringing statements, such as that of the National Council on December 3, 1965, which alternately stated the hawk and the dove positions: "We hold that within the spectrum of their concern, Christians can and do espouse one or the other of these views, or still other views, and should not have the integrity of their conscience faulted because they...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Beginning with the 1954 Supreme Court decision against school segregation, the civil rights movement was the major cause of the churches' new activism. Most denominations already paid lip service at least to integration, but the growing national concern and the direct challenge to the Christian conscience brought about a flurry of new resolutions and exhortations. In the 1960s, the civil rights struggle moved the churches further and further along from talk to action...
...concern for power: There is an obsession with power. The refrain again and again is the acquisition of power. It seems to be assumed that, with power, evil can be eradicated; that, without it, nothing can be done. Participants want power versus the faculty, the college administration, industry, the unions and government. There is a determination to combine the new morality of the students with the old power now held by other people...
Laredo poverty war leaders are keenly sensitive to this concern on the part of the local civic and political leaders; indeed, many of the antipoverty officials are themselves powers in the community...