Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most obvious new. emphasis was on racial equality, an important point to an audience at least 25% nonwhite. "We're one blood," Billy told his crowds passionately. "If we have dark skin, it's because God made us that way. Let's accept it and be proud of it! Black is beautiful, white is beautiful, yellow is beautiful-when Christ is present." To those who came forward to accept Christ at Graham's call (between 800 and 1,000 each night), Billy's charge included a similar theme: "Go to a person of another race...
Favored Customers. In the face of the obvious need to control inflation by restricting lending, the big banks have been circumventing the Federal Reserve's credit-tightening measures. To keep favored customers happy, they have even been willing to pay more for some funds than they can get by lending them out. Abroad, the banks have paid as high as 13% to borrow and bring home Eurodollars...
...immorality, drug abuse and public nudity, but the complaints have proved largely illusory. A more realistic reason for the rancor is the fact that as many as 25% of local residents-most of whom are Mexican Americans-are unemployed, and many resent the white middle-class hippies' obvious flouting of the American ideal. "They are making fun of our poverty and our fight for survival," says Francis Quintana, a local school principal. Another explanation is that local entrepreneurs fear the hippies will hurt Taos' largest industry, tourism. "Tourists don't want to come and share the venereal...
...representatives of the Communist parties, whose ideal is the construction of the just society: Can it really be that such an obvious restoration of Stalinism in our country -the head of Communist society -does not alarm you? We call upon you to examine the total seriousness of the situation and do everything that your conscience and reason tell you -everything that is in your power -so that the ominous shadow of Stalin will not darken our future...
...most interesting area of opportunity lies among highly educated people in advanced countries, notably the U.S. The slogans of their rebellion against various social evils assert that they wish to change society. But underneath the surface, what is being resisted is often change itself, change that has no obvious meaning and no clearly understood direction. As the U.S. enters the "postindustrial age," the bitter questions about the future, the nostalgia for the past-all the 19th century symptoms seem to be returning. Perhaps tomorrow will see men longing for the rigidities of the industrial century, as previous generations clung...