Word: framework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bryce in scholarship, Heren offers considerable journalistic value: he provokes Americans into looking outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...
...only after exacting a promise of top secrecy. And if the pressagents were quiet, the recording sessions were quieter still. Dylan, 26, has abandoned the electric guitar and big-noise backing that thundered out from his last few albums, and has returned to his earlier acoustic-guitar-plus-harmonica framework...
...suggest this framework, Designer Jacques Dupont created a set in which all four acts were played in an open arena. As Carmen worked her wiles on Don Jose, for example, a crowd representing all social levels wandered up and down the tiers of the arena in complete indifference, doing little dance steps of amused noninvolvement...
...organize," but mainly for the "mobilization of Negro political and economic resources into a significant bloc to achieve goals." He draws an elemental difference between the two opposing approaches to Black Power: "Where the builders differ from the burners is that we want to win victories within the framework of the system." Martin Luther King Jr., who began by counseling his people to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you," embraces the new Negro ethic in its most reasonable application: "Black Power is a call to black people to amass...
...major part of the Black Power movement, at least now, is far more moderate than its reputation. In the main, it desires neither to shoot its way out of white America nor to enter a supremacy contest with the white Establishment. Its goals lie within democracy's permissive framework, which has stretched many times before to assimilate minority groups and which, as far as the U.S. Negro is concerned, must stretch again...