Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites (some of whom said that they were antibusing) who urged parents and students to behave. Explains Jack Casey, director of the ad campaign: "Our idea was 'Don't preach, don't try to sell busing, just try to tell people that it is important to obey...
...contemporary disciplines-economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense of the public weal-in short, to honor the 'city' of which one is a member...
...very notion of childhood was rather different from our notion of it. Children were dressed in smaller versions of adult clothes and, from the toddler stage on, were taught to obey their parents, pray long and hard to God-and fear his retribution. The father ruled the family, handing down orders to wife and children alike. The minister's words were given enormous respect. Church lasted many hours, not one, and was very much at the center of the family's life. Children were not coaxed, begged, bargained with; they were told and expected to respond immediately. Hell...
...talked through the entire hour and 50 minutes. He was informed and up to date, moving the discussion through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He dwelt on the major forces at work, the people and events, his concern about the Soviet Union. If his mouth would not always obey his commands, the Americans detected nothing wrong with his mind...
...South--Negro friends. This sort of injustice is but a reflection of the malaise rooted deeply into our social system; a system that also says 'you must place your body at our disposal.' The authority of the government, insofar as I see it to be warranted, I will cheerfully obey. But I cannot obey a law see as wrong.... Therefore I say to you with all respect that I am returning the symbol of your agency and dissociating myself from your jurisdiction...