Word: movement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College. Seemingly a natural for the pulpit (he had won a $1,000 prize for oratory), Farmer got a divinity degree from Howard University but was never ordained. He was repelled by the then segregationist policies of the Methodist Church, which inevitably led him into the infant civil rights movement. For the next 28 years, he dedicated himself to the black revolution...
...small, possibly doomed, but significant revolt against Mayor Richard Daley is being staged in Illinois by dissident Democrats. The movement's unofficial leader: State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, who last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
...mergers. Alarmed critics complain about shaky financial foundations, untested managements, dubious use of tax loopholes and overconcentration of economic power. Last week conglomerates ran into simultaneous and serious attack from both Congress and the Nixon Administration. The assault will almost certainly lead to new laws to control the conglomerate movement. "We're going after this," says a ranking White House adviser. "Otherwise, we'd have an economy like the Japanese, with certain large families owning everything...
...bleaker, more perceptive portrait of senility can ever have been written. Bruno wakes daily into pain. The small act of putting on his bathrobe must be thought out carefully in advance, as a gymnast plans a movement in a high-wire act. Bruno has become a monster and knows it. He lives for sips of champagne permitted him each evening and the exhilaration of using the telephone to call wrong numbers and know the thrill of human explanations and regrets. Murkily he perceives that death is a physical...
...have no doubt that it was in recognition of this colloquium, which became a very significant step in the whole movement of ecumenicism, that he gave the books," the Rev. Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, said yesterday...