Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more serious complaint is that Mormonism is too much concerned with the perfection of its own organization, too little with the problems of the world. J. D. Williams, a professor of political science at the University of Utah and a former member of a stake (diocese) high council, argues: "It's time that the church indicated its concern for more things than simply internal structure and processes." He notes that the Salt Lake City League of Women Voters, in a city that is 52% Mormon, is almost exclusively staffed by "Gentiles" (non-Mormons). Church members should devote more...
...peace groups. (Rustin, whose career as a pacifist stems back to a jail sentence in 1943 for conscientious objection, chuckled noticeably.) Rustin's response was twofold: he agreed with those who stressed the contributions of the peace movement and the qualifications upon his proposed alliance; but he also expressed concern about the possibility of a more attractive alternative. "Present me with an alternative," he said, as he has said before. "If you can come up with a viable alternative, I will certainly consider...
Rustin's central concern in the civil rights movement is now somewhat more subdued. As the movement shifts from "protest to politics," he says, "it behooves Negroes to cultivate allies in the ranks of liberals and labor." The massive Freedom Budget of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, of which Rustin is presently Executive Director, is predicated upon this thesis...
While stressing Stokely Carmichael's drive and creativity, Rustin did express concern at the following which the young radical has acquired among Negroes attending college. What disturbed Rustin most was Carmichael's lack of a program, a concern which the Negro members of the seminar assured him that they shared. They thanked him for his clarification of the issues and for the opportunity to appreciate the contributions that have been made, and continue to be made, by the "older generation...
...increasingly less committed to sacrificial, revolutionary programs. Sixty-eight percent of the 1958 survey respondents said they did not think one should risk one's life for a social ideology. Young people appear by no means inspired to support grand schemes for construction of radically new societies. Their real concern is for more opportunity for self-expression, for the satisfaction of personal goals and wants...