Word: manley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name, at least to Northern Hemisphere Christians, is Montevideo's Juan Luis Segundo, whose theology is just beginning to appear in English. The restored society has also produced the other kinds of creative minds that distinguished its earlier eras, including Philosopher-Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
Each year five Overseers are elected for six year terms. The candidates in order on the ballot are: Elizabeth B. Dubois '62, Humphrey Doerman '52, Manley Fleischmann '29, Gerard Pier '37, Dr. John H. Knowles '47, Walter H. Page '37, Eli Goldston '42, Marilyn W. Monsour '45, Joseph W. Bartlett II '52, and Kenneth Keniston...
...Manley has set himself no less a task than that of freeing his countrymen from the colonial assumption that "somebody else is going to do it all for me." When workmen in Kingston recently balked at cleaning drainage ditches, Manley himself took up a shovel and began to dig. "All sorts of people who had refused to work later joined me," he recalled. "But if I had gone down in jacket and tie and made a great speech about the dignity of labor, they would have said: 'That's for the birds,' and they would have been...
...Manley came to power proclaiming that "a man without a job is a man without rights," and he runs the risk of seeing his followers among Jamaica's poor turn against him unless he is able to fulfill some of the expectations he has aroused. The opposition Labor Party is in disarray; Manley's party controls 37 of 53 seats in the House. Even so, Manley has made only a promising start. He has launched several crash public-works programs, including new sidewalks for Kingston, and has appealed to Jamaica's own economists to find original solutions...
...unabashed egalitarian," as he puts it, Manley grew up in an atmosphere of politics and art (his English-born mother is a sculptor). After service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, he studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly...