Word: preached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Using air time donated by local radio and television stations, PRO Detroit broadcast spot ads featuring blacks and 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...
Many of us in New Hampshire feel that William Loeb [Jan. 12] should apply his paper's slogan ("There is nothing so powerful as truth") to the Manchester Union Leader, reasoning that it does not represent Manchester, preach unity or exert true leadership. When Loeb was in a Boston hospital recently, some fantasized that instead, the whole state should be in-for a Loebotomy...
...Somerset and Search for Tomorrow) are reworkings of conventional material and have little of the dash of the newer dramas. "I guess we're awfully dull," admits Joe Willmore, who directs the writers of As the World Turns. "I hate to say it, but I don't want to preach to people about social mores. I want to be largely accepted...
...Phoenix, learn carpentry at an industrial school, work with radical political groups, and generally ponder the state of the country and of my soul. Returning to Harvard in 1974, I thought I noticed a drop in temperature which wasn't "just me." If it would be presumptuous to preach or speak for others, perhaps I can at least share some impressions to see if they resonate at all. They boil down to the claim that we are being fatefully socialized here into a way of knowing and naming the world which renders whole populations invisible and entire regions in ourselves...
...solution of its ills, they went to Christian thought and Scriptures and concluded that Christians have a spiritual mandate to struggle on the side of the downtrodden. Jesus himself, they point out, citing the fourth chapter of Luke, declared early in his public life that he had come "to preach good news to the poor . . . to proclaim release to the captives . . . to set at liberty those who are oppressed...