Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that ringing declaration, made at the University of Notre Dame last May, Jimmy Carter might have added "You can depend on it!" In his half-year in office, the President has gone far toward creating a new American foreign policy, both in content and conduct. He has tirelessly emphasized ?some might say preached?the virtues of open diplomacy and moral principles as a substitute for what he contends was the often secretive and sometimes amoral Realpolitik of the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger years. He has spent an extraordinary amount of time on foreign affairs and has made more news...
...given many Americans a renewed feeling that they are standing for something good in the world. He has done this in his own special style, but in the tradition of Wilson, Roosevelt and Dulles, who, in very different ways, affirmed that U.S. foreign policy must have a moral content...
...Graham, America's premier evangelist, being born again is not some vague spiritual high but a personal commitment with a very specific doctrinal content. The starting point is sin, which, in Graham's view, saturates every individual and humanity in general. He argues that God, the righteous "moral judge of the entire universe," requires a penalty for sin, and that penalty was paid for all time by the death of God's son, Jesus Christ, on the Cross. "When Christ atoned for sin, He stood in the place of guilty men and women," Graham writes...
...first time-and possibly the last, until their return to a theme park. Notes California Sociologist Jim Dunnivan: "In contrast to the conspicuous consumption of the '50s and early '60s, the emphasis of the '70s is on experience. Today's adult isn't content to sit back and be a spectator. Instead, he wants to get actively involved as a participant." Says Gary Kyriazi, author of The Great American Amusement Parks...
...concede that adults have a right to read whatever they wish-or at least might accept that the law requires this. But they also argue an equal right not to be subjected to pornography that they consider offensive. The law seems to be moving toward some such distinction between content (protected) and display (regulated), which may not answer all the troublesome questions but is a start...