Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diminished by Self-Discipline. Although industry is far from blameless, many of the nation's gravest trade ailments have been concocted in Washington. The trouble consists of federal deficits, easy tolerance of wage increases that outstrip rising productivity, and the pursuit of economic growth at the expense of stable prices. Even so, the U.S. still has the world's largest and most efficient economy, along with an impressive lead in finance, marketing and much technology. If the nation has the self-discipline to bring its inflation-bent economy under control, the worst of its difficulties with foreign competition...
Today, the Crimson racketmen travel to Cornell in pursuit of another important conference victory...
...answer to whether Dr. King labored in vain will not be determined alone by the success or failure of civil rights legislation or by improvement of housing and economic opportunities for minorities, but also by the degree to which all of us, blacks and whites, are committed to the pursuit and practice of nonviolence and love. Any commitment short of total is a farce...
Sermon & Song. In the pursuit of "relevancy," Negro churches in the North have been returning to the soulful spirit of the past in worship-and becoming more militant in political concern. Many congregations that had tried to imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine...
...past skirted a definite position on the race issue, McGill has consistently scored all forms of Southern extremism. Some of his most notable editorial writing, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958, has been in angry pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan and other advocates of violence. "To the Kluxer mentality," he wrote in one anthologized column, "the Christian communion cup must be a Dixie...