Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican's inflexibility with respect to altering long-held dogmas should surprise no one. The whole Ecumenical movement has never resulted in any substantial changes, only in talk about changes. The rulings that the Mass may be sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...
...cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation in 1967 of the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution." In effect, the committee replaced the weak National Assembly, which finally was dissolved last January as "obsolete...
...main thrust of what one Pikeville senior proudly calls "the only right-wing student protest movement in the country" is against the progressive policies of Thomas Johns, 37, a former Little All-America football tackle (Hanover College, 1953) who became president 19 months ago. Johns hired 30 new teachers, put a new curriculum emphasis on sociology and psychology, secured federal grants so that students can work in local antipoverty projects, and instituted compulsory courses on contemporary issues. He has appointed students to faculty and trustee committees, urged them to get involved in such local issues as water pollution, strip mining...
Like most arists today Mirko rejects attempts, similar to those of Coney Island portraitists, at a frozen duplication of reality. The reality, he feels, is better than a copy because in the duplication you lose "the warmth of a cheek, or the movement of a tree." For art to equal nature it must "create its own magic reality...
Negative Cube. The antic spirit that animates the earthworks movement has been cavorting in Manhattan for at least one year-ever since putty-nosed Claes Oldenburg, 39, dumfounded the city with his contribution to its outdoor sculpture festival. Oldenburg can always be counted on to do the unaccountable...