Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech aroused a good deal of speculation about where and how Johnson had latched on to the phrase "the Great Society." While there was apparently no single source (just before he mentioned it at Ann Arbor last May, he had been talking with Writers John Steinbeck and Barbara Ward, among many others), two possible inspirations are particularly intriguing. One is a 1927 book by Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey, in which he discussed the "search for the Great Community" in terms of liberating individual potentialities; the other is a 1921 book by British Fabian Socialist Graham Wallas entitled The Great Society...
...AGRICULTURE: Bluntly, the Johnson Administration has no idea what to propose for farm legislation this session. In his State of the Union address, Lyndon settled for brief platitudes, calling for "new approaches"-a phrase that drew laughter from him and his advisers as they drafted it. There is some talk in the Administration of lower support prices for larger, prosperous farmers, and higher ones for smaller growers. No matter what Johnson dreams up to mold the U.S. agricultural mess to fit the shape of a Great Society, 1965 farm legislation will be a sticky problem. Says Carl Albert: "This will...
Others of the Faculty objected to the phrase "Molecular Biology" in the proposed name of the new committee. A molecular biologist works only with the chemistry of DNA and its associated proteins...
...that "For most of its 130-year history Wake Forest was known as 'North Carolina's best high school.' " We have yet to find a single case in which anyone has heard the phrase applied to Wake Forest College. I appreciate the complimentary things said in your article concerning the progress that we have made since 1950, but I do not want the record of this period to be highlighted against the background of an inaccurate statement concerning the previous period...
...challenge to the churches-one that knows no national borders-is secularization. Dutch Theologian Albert van den Heuvel, head of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department, defines the term as "the process of ever-growing independence from any transcendent control." What it amounts to, in the blunt phrase of Friedrich Nietzsche, is "God is dead...