Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that all Americans?welfare recipients and welfare workers, black civil rights activists and white segregationists, hardhats and students?are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic themes were consistent. They were also upbeat and positive...
...Baptist churches, and several of the organization's key staffers are black. On the other hand, that 70,000 represents only one-half of 1 %-a minuscule figure that Baptist leaders ascribe partly to local autonomy, partly to black separatism (black Baptists, of whom the most celebrated was Martin Luther King Jr., now total more than 11 million, organized in four major conventions). Of the many Southern Baptist churches that still have no black members, one is Jimmy Carter's home church in Plains, Ga. Though the Carter family itself supported the admission of black members, Plains Pastor...
...issues that should prove to be most controversial in the Faculty center on undergraduate concentrations and the creation of a core curriculum--a revitalized General Education. While many of the task forces are behind schedule in their work, Paul C. Martin '52, chairman of the Physics Department and of the task force on concentrations, says that his panel is completing its final recommendations now. Aside from suggesting that communications between students and the various concentrations be improved, however, the task force continues to waffle. Martin says he is unsure what should be done with selective enrollment, or elite, majors like...
This situation should be remedied, according to Martin, because the function of a major is to allow "students to reach to level of proficiency at which it is possible for them to put together and apply information in their department." Essentially, sources say, Martin's task force is concluding that things aren't in bad shape; there are trouble points, most of which, it would seem, the task force doesn't deal with too heavily, but the philosophy behind the idea of a Harvard concentration is valid...
...year in 1975, Defender circulation and revenues are up. One big problem common to black urban newspapers: distribution. Dealers in interracial neighborhoods refuse to carry the Defender, and in black areas street gangs rob the newsboys so often that home delivery is not profitable. Says Editorial Director Louis Martin, 63: "Anyone in the black press knows it's not a profit-making thing. We've got a mission...