Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a series of readings from the works of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, in which whites as well as blacks speak for her. Suffused not only with anger at injustice but also with a glowing concern for humanity, it is a milestone in the current white-black confrontation...
...Environmental Quality Council, a Cabinet-level advisory group designed to coordinate governmental action against environmental decay at all levels, create new proposals to control pollution, and foresee problems. Dr. Lee DuBridge, Nixon's science adviser and the executive secretary of the council, indicated that initial areas of specific concern may be air pollution caused by auto exhausts, and the dangers of pesticides such as DDT. Undoubtedly the council will also concern itself with establishing basic environmental policies. If the new group can fulfill its mandate and win congressional cooperation, progressive national legislation controlling pollution will result...
...Americans are more concerned than ever before about the problems of morals and ethics. The concern ranges over the whole spectrum of society, from student violence and changing sex habits to venality among public officials and conflicts of interest in the business world. In his latest survey for TIME, Louis Harris has undertaken a study of moral attitudes among Americans in an effort to illuminate the changing U.S. moral climate. The results produce ample evidence that, despite considerable indignation at what they believe to be unjust, Americans in general are far more permissive about morals than they were only...
...agree by lopsided majorities that morality in the U.S. has declined over the past ten years. Nationwide, 67% of Harris' sampling of 1,600 representative Americans take that view, while only 11% believe that mora1 standards have risen. Those who feel that morality has improved point to increased concern for racial and social justice and to widespread revulsion against the war in Viet Nam. The majority that finds a decline in standards attributes the trend more than anything else to increased emphasis on sex, crime and violence in newspapers, magazines, books, TV and films. Another often cited cause...
...that may not be easy. Bradley appealed for calm on the streets and cooperation with the Yorty administration in healing the campaign's scars. But some of his supporters -without his cooperation-are thinking of organizing a recall movement* that could renew the ugly dispute. There was also concern that the disappointment would undercut the position of moderate black leaders and that it might even contribute to new disorders in the ghettos. Herbert Carter, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, was among the pessimists: "This plays into the hands of the separatists. They...