Word: directs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...percentage of Michigan's Negro vote has gone up in each of his three gubernatorial campaigns. Williams also believes that "the doctrine will be changed, and in my lifetime." The problem is that Mormon belief cannot be redefined by convention or popular vote but only by a direct revelation from God to the President, Prophet and Seer of the church. Although he insists that most Mormons are not prejudiced against Negroes, President McKay has declared that he sees no possibility of a new revelation on the teaching. McKay's probable successor, Joseph Fielding Smith, 90, president...
...artists in this show are killers -- all but two of the prisons represented are maximum security institutions -- and what is most startling about this exhibit is the number of evenly-wrought, painfully conventional paintings which these men produced. The prison doesn't provide models or try, through instruction, to direct the content of these paintings; the prisoners are left to their own imaginations, and one somehow expects the social outlaw, the man who just couldn't keep down the urge to throw a brick through a window, to be a little less-contained in front of the easel. One expects...
...attitudes, as distinct from the behavior to which these attitudes lead, are extremely difficult to ascertain in a communist country. Limited survey research in Poland, the U.S.S.R., and elsewhere, however, along with the impressions of those outsiders who have lived among students in a communist society, have provided some direct evidence of student attitudes...
...general to identify completely their interests with the policies of the communist party is one of the most important facts of life in a communist country. One need only read the continuing complaints of the regimes in the party presses to become aware of this. This condition is a direct consequence of the environment imposed on these groups by the parties, an environment through which little prospect is seen of fulfilling individual interests. It had led to a response by these groups to their environment which has a distinctly political character...
...Martin. They say they explained, frankly and openly, their feelings about the importance of the poor participating in, and even running, the war on poverty. They added that they felt the methods of fighting poverty would have to involve such active steps as the formation of labor organizations and direct community action--demonstrations and marches. An effective war on poverty, they report telling the mayor, is simply not compatible with the "entrenched South Texas establishment...