Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keppel's powers spread throughout the entire fabric of American education. He is the czar of school integration programs, and can trigger a shut-off of federal funds to any educational project where racial discrimination exists. As Assistant Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, he heads a committee that is studying the educational efforts of 43 federal agencies. He is chairman of a group that will propose more legislation on education next year, and he will have much to say about the direction of a new federal program for spreading scientific research grants among clamoring universities...
...example, your garden variety cleric usually isn't a CIA-trained expert on Russia. Nor has he been instrumental in organizing a movement which profoundly affected the fabric of American society (the freedom rides of the early '60's.) Nor does he yet harbor a secret desire to be a concert pianist...
...Orozco was acclaimed for what were considered his uniquely Mexican qualities. He drew his subject matter from Aztec, Mayan and Toltec mythology, the history of the Spanish conquest and the 1910 Revolution. His colors are violent and rough, like those of the native Indian pottery and fabric designs. His figures are powerful, primordial and violent; their every thrust calls out for social justice...
...arguments and added another specific condemnation. Our basic misunderstanding of contemporary revolutions and our related myths about Vietnam, he said, were resulting in a policy which worked against our national interest. By failing to grapple realistically with the revolution in Southeast Asia, and by destroying the political and social fabric of South Vietnam, we were unconsciously establishing the preconditions for successful Chinese domination...
...Silva's point was unarguable. Unionism is woven throughout the fabric of present American life, both social and economic. "The labor movement," says Chicago's Sidney Lens longtime labor leader and writer, "is really a carbon copy of capitalism." It is more than that: it is capitalism. Its relations with management remain adverse to a degree; but the action is that of cogwheels moving in opposite directions to operate the whole free-enterprise machine...