Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traynham's views are very much a metamorphosis of Martin Luther King's own philosophy of non-violent social change. King was trying at the time of his death to expand the scope of his demonstrations. Traynham too would urge both whites and blacks to focus their attention away from individual acts of courage and sacrifice to the soliciting, instead, of corporate contributions of resources and social consciousness...
...workshops were the first of a week-long series. A workshop tonight will focus on service in the armed forces. Draft refusal and jail, conscientious objection, and emigration to Canada will be the subjects of workshops later this week...
Saturday's march was the first event in SDS's "ten days," a concentrated protest effort that will focus on the war, civil rights, the presidential campaign, and labor issues...
...experience that cannot convey real knowledge, cannot convey real understanding. She objects to the way in which "the photographer's approach. . . is unsystematic, indeed anti-systematic." And well it may be, but systematic thinking and intellectual rigor is but one form of truth. Photography--with its episodic glimpses, its focus on a single image in a world that is blurred and rushing past--presents another form of truth, different from rational truth but also valid...
...points stand out. First, although the draft itself is the focus for the Union's work, and the Union has called for "no draft for an unjust war," it has not put together a program of its own for an end to the draft altogether, for a different system of deferments, a volunteer army, etc. There were reasons for this-the Union probably never could have agreed upon a program. It feared, for example, that by calling for an end to the draft altogether it might alienate large segments of its potentially broad-based support. But this, in turn...