Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urban Crisis. The crisis of the American urban complex, with its rotting center-city core and its increasing demands for intelligent planning as well as financial aid, was another central theme of the Governors' talks. Said Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey: "Connecticut as a whole can be a healthy society only if we join in a concerted effort to improve the quality of urban life." He recommended a new Department of Municipal Affairs, as well as new measures to combat air-and-water pollution and discrimination in jobs and housing. And New York's Rockefeller, whose bailiwick includes...
...civil disobedience, Terence was first arrested (and fined ?1) for "blocking a footpath" during a 1960 peace march in London. In 1963, while trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi, he was arrested for loitering and littering, but the charges were not pressed. He joined CORE in San Francisco, helped organize the New Leftist W.E.B. DuBois Club, was arrested six more times for protests at business establishments that allegedly discriminated against Negroes. For twice refusing to leave a Cadillac agency, he was convicted on charges ranging from unlawful assembly to unlawful entry...
...terrible problem of water shortage and we more than doubled the capacity for water supply. Half of the cost, about 40 million dollars, was financed by the Inter-American Bank with Alliance for Progress funds. And also in our school program, which was I think, the core of my effort there. Now we have places in the public school for every child, which we didn't have before. And part of it was financed by the Alliance for Progress...
...Core of Love. The generation shows the same empirical approach to love as many do to drugs. Says Billie Joe Phillips, 23, a Georgia coed who writes a twice-weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution: "For most of the girls in my age group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says...
...students who entered them last fall "barely passed the entrance examinations." Such teachers cannot and do not keep pace with technological advances. In physics, for example, they give their students "what amounts to a history of the subject instead of bringing them face-to-face with the core of physics itself...