Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church "cannot fail to consider man in the entirety of his being." In particular, Christians must seek a "more just and equitable distribution of goods, not only within each nation but also in the world in general...
Equally troubling is the report's demand that local stations continue to go begging to corporations and the general public. Already, the administrators of many stations spend most of their time passing the hat, and controversial programming is often shelved for fear of offending donors. Says Jay Iselin, president of New York's WNET (Channel 13): "It's humiliating to spend most of your time getting up the dough rather than becoming involved in programming...
...called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that has beset sloganeering in recent years. Some believe, for example, that the commercial practice of the art has fallen into something of a slump partially because advertising now gives so much attention to research-based claims that it has somewhat neglected the old standby...
Arthur A. Marshall Jr., Maryland attorney general, has decided to prosecute this case himself--for the first time in three years. Critics and Johnson supporters point out that Marshall did not try to get an indictment against the white policemen who shot unarmed black suspects last year. Marshall says, "I didn't go before the grand jury to seek an indictment in the Johnson case, either. I have always made it a policy to prosecute shootings involving the police, whether they are victims or defendants," once charges are brought...
...that Terrance is one more black victim to P.G. County racism. White residents, the police and country officials instead focus on the two policemen slain on duty as the real victims in the case. But really, Johnson, the two policemen, and the torn P.G. community itself, like America in general, are all victims of a long-lived, deep-rooted racism that seems as hard to overcome now as it has ever been...