Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep his output flowing, Ellington jots down "crispy, crunchy, fresh ideas" wherever they occur to him. His inspiration is "the way I live, the people who live around me, the world." Every Ellington piece is a musical snapshot from his experience. Mood Indigo is a little boy kept indoors by the rain, thinking of a little girl to whom he tipped his cap the day before; Shepherd Watching over the Night Flock, one of his newest pieces, is a preacher friend who canvasses Manhattan bistros each night, ministering to musicians and barflies...
...prejudiced against Negroes, President McKay has declared that he sees no possibility of a new revelation on the teaching. McKay's probable successor, Joseph Fielding Smith, 90, president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, has also said that he thinks a new revelation unlikely to occur soon. Unwilling to create a church schism over the issue, many Mormon liberals are confident that the continuing pressure of the civil rights revolution will sooner or later provoke a new divine dispensation-just as changing social conditions and government pressure led eventually to a "revelation" in 1890 that Mormonism should abandon...
...face of crises, both the developmental crises of adolescence and the accidental crises in everyday events. Again, the effect might be that religious students would come to the Psychiatric Service only when they cannot handle severe problems. (3) Religious students have a resistance to admitting emotional illness. This might occur because they more frequently use denial as a defense against anxiety...
...elected Governor two years ago. However, Conchita Dapena de Sanchez Vilella insisted that she would not give the Governor a divorce. "It is true that a separation does exist," she told a news conference. "However, I have neither sought it nor provoked it, nor have I caused it to occur...
Nothing so blatant can occur in an era of relentless publicity. Today's public doubts about congressional ethics begin in the area that is not necessarily the most important but is the most visible: perquisites and privileges, abuse of public funds and private gifts. A Congressman's or Senator's allowance for his office staff is strictly apportioned by law according to the size of his constituency-and is usually inadequate. Many Congressmen (51 at latest count) of modest means employ relatives in staff jobs, and the practice is not necessarily wrong. In Powell's case...