Word: doering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given such power, the disrupter for good is all the more impressive. He is the Doer, an everyday activist who resembles Camus' rebel, one who retains "a strange form of love" for the society he attacks. He wants to improve it, not kill...
...Doer is self-starting, and constantly in motion. His ego is proof against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...
During times of great ferment, of course, it is not always easy to tell the revolutionary from the Doer. Which of the two, for example, is Chicago Lawyer Saul Alinsky a self-styled professional radical who mobilizes slumdwellers to fight for their rights? Alinsky swears that he is a revolutionary, and yet by his own admission he works within the system. "I would destroy it if I knew of a better one," he says. "The problem is that I cant find a better...
...trend (13 states so far) and abolish the death penalty in their state. Mrs. Ehrmann, a cheerful woman of 73 who has worked for 40 years in this cause, is hopeful of the November out come. She has been supported all along by the conviction, which amounts to a Doer's principle, that "if people understand and are properly dealt with, they will follow an intelligent and humane course...
...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...