Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Established and partially supported by the Twentieth Century Fund, a smallish New York-based foundation, the council has spent much of its first nine months dealing with trivialities. It is not a record that pleases its members, an eclectic group drawn from print and broadcast journalism as well as the law, civil rights and other fields.* Executive Director William Arthur, a former editor of Look, blames the council's slow beginnings on public ignorance of its existence and on the naiveté of early complaints. "Too many of them had to do with editorial opinion rather than accuracy...
...Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology at Princeton, conservation can only succeed if Americans realize that the energy crisis is not "put on, contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans, suddenly deprived of gasoline, were also short of the "security blanket" provided by the auto and all the "freedom, status and glamour" that it represents. During the embargo, Keller said, police records show that there were more "violent family encounters as people spent more time involuntarily at home...
...next round promises to be a long, drawn-out battle in the courts. Two weeks ago, Outagamie County Judge R. Thomas Cane directed the board to fill all present openings with teachers who had been fired, and five were rehired. But the order leaves unsettled both the contract and the rehiring of the others. As the strikers mapped plans last week for mass demonstrations in June, others in Hortonville expressed dismay at what the dispute had done to their once-tranquil community. Said Mrs. Ann Milleren: "Such a hatred has grown. The scars will be a long time healing...
...starts living by some rules again. There's a lot to be said for the Ten Commandments." But he has publicly advocated more compassionate treatment of homosexuals, and is far from indifferent to poverty and racial problems in England and abroad. "This insular island must have its attention drawn to the Third World and its needs," Coggan said last week, and as for apartheid, he has publicly stated that it is incompatible with Christian beliefs...
...C.R.T.C. group is drawn to plays about people who have been badly bruised by life but are buoyed up by a resilient humor and a spunky refusal to admit defeat. In directing The Sea Horse, Marshall W. Mason is as true to that theme as a plumbline...