Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered a kit containing 50 "I Was There" buttons and a candle. Most of the 30 million Americans who lived through history's biggest blackout a year ago this week approached the first anniversary of The Night with a certain nostalgia. The memory also prompted a more practical concern. What, if any thing, has been done to prevent another failure on the scale of the 1965 eclipse that plunged...
...southern neighbors. As President Johnson warned in a recent Alliance for Progress address, such purchases "take clothes off the backs and food away from the stomachs and education away from the minds of our children." Hauling out its own heavy artillery last summer, Congress underscored Washington's concern by cutting U.S. military aid to Latin America 9% in the current fiscal year, to $85 million...
Birth or Original Sin," says Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School. "They're discussing the existence of God. And if there's no God, you don't have to argue about any of the other doctrines." The big concern of still others is the social role of the church. More important than questioning old dogma, says the World Council of Churches' Albert van den Heuvel, is the task of creating a new Christian ethic that can adequately deal with such mammoth issues as world hunger, racial equality...
Spiritually speaking, Pike "went over the wall. I was a free guy. It was glorious. I was vaguely a humanist, caring about good causes and truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to gain a doctorate in jurisprudence at Yale, and then to Washington to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938. "I was a fervent humanist when I went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans...
...19th century recedes into perspective, it becomes clear that the age was in every respect the equal of the great art epochs of the past and that among its greatest giants was Edouard Manet, one of the first artists to concern himself exclusively with modern times. "We laugh at Monsieur Manet," wrote Emile Zola 100 years ago. "It will be our sons who go into ecstasies over his canvases." Indeed, he is now ranked with Cezanne as one of the major precursors of 20th century painting. The problem is that his once scorned works are now so highly prized...