Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society. That dawning recognition may be a hopeful sign. Instead of racial discrimination, it might mean human discrimination, a capacity to distinguish among the enormously varied aspects of black America. Says the National Urban League's Whitney Young: "Somehow the white community has got to get over the idea that we should provide them with a black messiah who will be all things to all men. Whites seem to be able to distinguish their own crackpots from the rest, but when there's a riot of blacks, it's all just blacks...
When Presbyterian Leader Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the idea from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960, it electrified U.S. Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept...
Over the years, unions have treated worker seniority as gospel. The idea is that employees with the longest service have first crack at available jobs - and the last man hired is the first to lose his job in case of layoffs. Now the United Auto Workers has put before Ford Motor Co. proposals for a radical change in seniority arrangements...
...U.A.W. originally brought up inverted seniority during contract talks in both 1964 and 1967 but got nowhere. The auto companies, which pay most of the bill for unemployment benefits (Ford's fund totals $80 million), fear that the idea would make production cut-lacks so costly as to be self-defeating. In effect, they complain, inverted seniority could force the industry indirectly to pay two men for one job. They also worry that the scheme might destroy incentive and strip plants of experienced workers...
...those schools you mentioned." That was just his come-on to make me think that Harvard is too cool to dump on those other seven colleges. But the Ivy Guide is just the come-on without the twisted ironic smile. And if, as the authors admit, the idea was dreamed up over whisky sours at the Pudding, then the book must have been written much later that night on the way home...