Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
Some aspects of the anti-poverty program were intended to do just that: by infusing money into self-help projects, the government would enable the impoverished to climb out of the rut and, through hard work, to leave it behind. Included in the attack on poverty was a job-training program for the unemployed, the provision of part-time jobs for teenagers, community anti-poverty projects, loans to low-income farmers and businessmen and a domestic peace corps. An Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was established to coordinate these programs...
...aspect of OEO's program went further, affording the potential for eliminating the rut altogether. The Legal Services Program, begun in 1965 with offices in only 14 communities, developed over the next decade into a broad-based force for social change, operating out of 900 neighborhood offices and employing over 2500 lawyers. When established groups like the American Bar Association gave their early approval to the program, they were unaware of the implications legal aid for the poor had for the American legal system. They supported a limited program whereby the impoverished would receive free counsel for individual problems such...
...been a decade since Lyndon Johnson told the American people that it could eliminate poverty. Now, with the demise of the Office of Economic Opportunity to come in September, Johnson's hopes lie trampled in the ever-deep rut of poverty that runs through the nation's cities...
...House Judiciary Committee be gan to climb out of its rut and seemed ready to quicken the march toward impeachment. Charles Colson, a former member of Nixon's innermost circle, confessed his criminality and professed a desire to tell all that he knows about Watergate. It was revealed that a federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt...