Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The effect was electric. In a climax to three days of acrimonious debate at the Episcopal Church's Special General Convention, the delegates reversed an earlier decision and voted (404 to 222) to provide $200,000 to the moderate National Committee of Black Churchmen. In taking the action, delegates...
Flowered Crosses. The convention was also remarkable in other ways. Each of the nation's 107 dioceses had been invited to send, in addition to the regular delegations, one youth, one woman, and one member of other minority groups as nonvoting participants. The guests soon radicalized the convention, making...
Throughout the week's meetings, gaily dressed youths stood in the arena's bleachers, holding hands and taking turns quietly reading the names of all the Viet Nam war dead. At one point, the Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, introduced a procession of priests...
Outrage and Acclaim. Political Scientist Barber claims no credentials in behavioral science. His analysis of Nixon, he admits, is not based on personal acquaintance, but only on careful study of the President's upbringing, rhetorical style, ideological evolution and relations with advisers and opponents. To most laymen, such long...
Impossible dream? Perhaps. But during his lifetime the man known as Stanley Clifford Weyman was feted as the U.S. Consul General to Algiers, highly praised as Silent Star Pola Negri's private physician and duly appointed Special Deputy Attorney General of New York. In addition-among countless other achievements...