Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a religious Woodstock. It cuts across nearly all the social dividing lines, from crew cut to long hair, right to left, rich to poor. It shows considerable staying power: many who were in its faint beginnings in 1967 are still leading it. It has been powerful enough to divert many young people from serious drug addiction. Its appeal is ecumenical, attracting Roman Catholics and Jews, Protestants of every persuasion and many with no religion at all. Catholics visit Protestant churches with a new empathy, and Protestants find themselves chatting with nuns and openly enjoying Mass. "We are all brothers...
...could start anywhere; let's start concretely.The hero is a landlord still living off rents; he does not work. He keeps a huge modern apartment full of luxury items which obsess him more than they divert him. He is imprisoned by conspicuously useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life; they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...
...Vietnam as well. he said he did not rule out the possibility but pointed out that the United States "contributes to these various multilateral institutions because it sees them to be in long-term American interest . . . We would not contribute to multilateral assistance which would permit a country to divert more resources toward its military." Copyright 1971-Dispatch News Service International
...boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident in last November's elections, and divert attention from the call for social reform to the demand for law-and-order...
...recent days, a concerted effort has been made, by a group of members of this University, to divert attention from recent violations of freedom of speech through a campaign against Professor Huntington. All of us, even these who disagree most sharply with Professor Huntington's views on the Vietnam war and with his policy recommendations, express our indignation at the claim by any group of self-appointed vigilantes to the right to pillory those whom they choose to designate as "war criminals." We assert our determination to protect academic freedom, and most specifically, Professor Huntington's or any other teacher...