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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE MORALS. If the civil rights movement has been the most dramatic, it is in the area of morals that the deepest changes have occured. The large-scale, disastrous attempt to legislate morality, exemplified by Prohibition, will hardly be repeated. And since World War II, Protestants-increasingly, Catholics as well-have witnessed an unprecedented evolution of their churches' attitude toward marriage and sex. In 1956, the United Lutheran Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed...
...changes, it may be necessary to engage in civil disobedience to further arouse the conscience of the nation and make it clear we feel this is hurting our country." By the end of the week, many were convinced that civil disobedience on a significant scale will be adopted, causing a split in the movement between moderates and those farther left...
...needs and those of its neighbors, while another would build up, say, a chemical-fertilizer industry. Such a market, runs Johnson's argument, would help Latin Americans help themselves by making it profitable and desirable to switch from relatively isolated national markets to trading on a hemispheric scale...
...artillery firepower at instant radio command. It has proved a lethal union. Not until the beginning of 1967 did the U.S. have sufficient troops in Viet Nam to put the new tactic to use on a widespread basis. The three months since have witnessed fighting of a scope and scale unequaled in the war, producing Communist deaths at a rate that, if it keeps up, will mean 80,000 enemy killed during...
...writers in the vanguard, have been increasingly critical of restrictions imposed by the system on free expression and the free exchange of ideas. Young writers have been the leaders of the protests against the dogmatic approach to life that is so characteristic of the communist regimes. On a broader scale, the large mass of young people, who are neither products of the higher educational system nor young intellectuals, are equally disillusioned. Although their horizons are not so high as to push them into protests and demands for more selfexpression, they do have their own means of expressing discontent...